[ivanhoe]

There's also a 3rd category of users, the bots, and crawlers/scrapers can greatly benefit from some of those invisible accessibility features...

[paulryanrogers]

While this may be true we build (non-API) sites for humans. Just because bad actors may exploit tools for differently abled people doesn't mean it's OK to exclude the innocent to reduce ones costs.

[ivanhoe]

No one suggested that, and not all bots are evil - there's still a number of useful web spiders that webmasters can benefit from, it's not just googlebot out there...