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Not at all. I am all for accommodating blind developers, and blind people in general. I even used to work as a narrator of audio textbooks for blind people and worked on side project apps to help the blind, so I am quite passionate about this.

But I also know that no blind developer would want their sighted fellow developers to miss out on something useful on their behalf, especially not in some kind of preemptive gesture of sympathy.

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Its not about missing out. When all your coworkers switch to the new shiny thing which is not accessible, the reality of the situation is that you are now no longer a useful coworker, at least when it comes to that particular activity. True, you can try to find another corner of the tech activities world to regain usefulness, but the truth is, if enough shiny tech is established, at one point you are no longer able to cooperate with the rest of the bunch. No pity or sympathy talk necessary. Its just reality. If accessibility is ignored long enough, the digital divide gets bigger, thats just a fact. Talking about sympathy and all that jazz is really missing the harsh reality of the matter.

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