DrDoc - 4:26 am on Mar 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

So... a perceived lack of accessibility means that the webmaster "deliberately took extra time and effort" to not provide the various additional services and content...?

I wouldn't say extra time ... just time, period. By default, a plain text site is accessible. Once you deviate from that, you either maintain accessibility, or you omit it. The only two reasons for omitting accessibility is ignorance and deliberately not providing alternative content. By doing the latter, you are also shooting yourself in the foot by not providing any meat for search engines.

Finally ... We will never see a law requiring a private website to be accessible. We probably will not ever (or at least for a long time) see a law requiring corporate websites to be accessible.