So, You Don’t Have Any Disabled Users?

And then out of that 2.6%, what % of those would be interested in your site even if it is accessible? Diminishing returns, you're right. These other guys are kidding themselves.

You'd be better off worrying about all the Chinese and Indians who can't read your site in English.

> I'm not sure we can easily get out of it, but perhaps now... with a somewhat renewed focus on semantic markup and better CSS in browsers, we could encourage browsers to treat "user-specified" styling as a first class function of what it means to be a 'browser'?

Opera does this. I have a drop-down on the bottom of my window which will load in local .css files on top of sites. You can write your own, and Opera has a good selection out-of-the-box. I'm not disabled, but I will sometimes switch into the "Accessibility" layout when a site's style/layout starts annoying me. It's very readable, and very easy on the eyes. You're right that most sites need to play good with their own HTML to support this, but my experience is that it works when I want it to work.

Unrelated, but this feature is also useful for debugging. Several of the styles serve to make the HTML structure more visible on the page.

Can someone who can't use a mouse navigate your site? How about if they can't use a keyboard?

I test on my ipad and iphone for usability. I plan on having mobi export so you can use a kindle if you want.

Can your default styles be over-ridden? Does it grow gracefully, or is content suddenly hidden?

The base font is 14pt with additional spacing between lines. The navigation won't degrade well but the body content should be fine though it might wrap oddly.

Have you checked your color contrasts for the color blind?

I do actually. I regularly use OSX's accessiblity tools to use grayscale or high contrast mode. I also have a badly-balanced lcd screen for testing if the text is still readable without proper color balance. The site is primarily black on light gray so I don't have many problems with that.

Are ads constantly looping animations?

No ads, currently. I doubt I will ever add them but if I do they will be static and only on index pages.

What fonts are you using?

    $sansFontFamily:        "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    $serifFontFamily:       Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
    $monoFontFamily:        Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;

Does it have a consistant navigation?

Edit links tend to be in the same place everywhere on the site. Still working on that. Delete buttons are always bright red on the bottom left of the edit screen. I hid them a bit on purpose since I would prefer people to archive stuff instead of deleting it.

What about the content? Is there any attempt to make it as readable as possible? Or are the authors long-winded? Is text broken up into reasonably sized paragraphs? Are sections effectively used? Is there abuse of all-caps or italics?

I have very little control over writing quality. It's a place for people to share their writing. I do a lot to mitigate the damage normal people like to inflict on readability but I can't force them to use paragraphs, capital lettters, or typography properly. I can only insure that all the text is in the same font and size for everyone's submissions. (I don't allow authors to increase or decrease font size. All html is prestyled with minimal room for adjustment.)

It turned HTML from a content delivery mechanism into what we have today.

The Internet in 1995 was a very content-rich place, even though search kinda sucked.

Just "deaf" here. "deaf" people who aren't part of "Deaf cultre" are just as unable to hear as "Deaf people". In fact, the average "Deaf" person may be more likely to be able to hear, since "Deaf" is cultural (can be opted-into) and "deaf" is biological.