I don’t care about accessibility

“These are the speaking notes I used during the ‘Accessibility is for everyone!’ panel discussion at South by SouthWest earlier this week [March 2004]. I came here to be on this panel to tell y’all that I don’t care about accessibility. Don’t care. Not an issue. Hardly ever comes up. Here’s my big secret for you today. When you design for the Web ó that is, when you design exclusively and specifically for this medium ó when you do that natively, so many of the things we consider problems just start to fall away.”