> The same could be said about the use of images on a site.

Only if you're making websites by photographing a picture on a wooden table. https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Web_0_0x2e_1

But if we're talking about text-based websites that are basically brochures, all you have to do it fill in the alt attribute. Nobody is asking anyone to make their website of paintings cater to the blind, it's a strawman position.

<<The solution is to develop sites with accessibility in mind.

Hmm. No.

I think other poster wrote something to the effect of 'once something becomes popular and adopted by the masses, it ceases to be the ideal believers once strived for'.

If anything, it would appear that when you attempt to please everyone, you have to trade-off in places that some users may find unacceptable.

To me, (accessibility) = (user capability) + (user state) + (device capability) + (device state)

I think it is really [something] that you refer to someone's choice in how to optimally configure their browser for their own use as "crippling"