I’m very keen on accessibility in computer systems. Nowadays we tend to take a rather superior attitude to this problem, often assuming that the general public need only have an easy way of buying things. My old boss always felt that the only really important part of any web-based application was what he referred to as the “F…ing big ‘Buy’ button”. The old idea of using the power of a computer by typing in commands seems rather ‘retro’, even when it can save hours of tiresome ‘click upon click’ in a GUI.
We increasingly prefer to exclude people from directly