[tgsovlerkhgsel]

There is a trend that when a goal can't be achieved directly, people try to push it through some other channel. In this case, accessibility can be mandatory in some cases (by law or specification) while "don't be an asshole to your users" is not.

It's hard to tell for sure where it's just a happy coincidence and where it is a pretext to make it either more appealing or to force people to do it under some other requirement, but you see this everywhere

- Some hostile "optimization" ideas by airlines getting nixed by safety arguments, certainly not at all influenced (/s) by the humans working at those regulators not wanting other humans to be subjected to that

- Animal rights activists using climate change as the main argument because it's a more popular topic now

- People trying to ban technical terms like "blacklist"/"whitelist" claiming the goal is more precise terminology

I'm sure there are plenty more examples.

[bee_rider]

Seems like a pretty damning indictment of current trends in web design.