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You misunderstood. I only used blindness for the specific example where you used blindness (the only specific example of affecting someone with a disability that you gave; why would that be harder for a blind person?). Most of your points didn't explain how they related to accessibility, they just said your way was easier and better without explaining how or to whom. That's what I was asking.

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Many people conflate access to aesthetics. There is a difference between actual ease of access and perceived elegancy resultant from vane conditions.

Specifically regarding programming languages the primary concern is parsing, whether that parsing is from software or people reading code.

As a person who has spent 10 years writing language parsers and code beautifiers the vane notions of what a language should look like are highly subjective and not incredibly beneficial. The mechanics and syntax of a language are far more important for understanding what code says very quickly. Like with natural written language elimination of ambiguities and redundant meanings speeds learning and reading which has second and third order consequences for the simplicity of tool design.

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