[peterwwillis]

> So why do we think it is perfectly acceptable to spend time ensuring that our websites work in IE9, but not that you can navigate them with a keyboard?

Lack of empathy, basically. There's very little financial or technical incentive to supporting disabled users. People just don't give enough of a shit to help people who have a hard time using technology. Sadly it's going to take a strong push from an advocacy group for disabled users to be taken seriously, just like they were necessary to get ramps and rails as required for all businesses.

[GFischer]

I advised my political party (here in Uruguay) on a bill to mandate accesibility throughout government websites, and we submitted it to Parliament.

Sadly it "died", it wasn't deemed important enough to be voted on and so languishes in a drawer or cabinet somewhere.