I think it’s rather clear that there is not a binary opposition between “accessibility” and “accessible to all of us” — though I’m not 100% sure what you might mean by the latter — can you detail that alittle more?

thanks

john

Tim Berners-Lee accessibility quotes

We’ve all seen it:

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect. –Tim Berners-Lee

Worthy, but dulled by constant repetition. Every client, every developer has a Pavlovian reaction to the quote, which causes their eyelids to droop and their thoughts to turn to that cutie in Accounts with the tight jeans.

There’s a newer quote from March 2006:

Another important area of professionalism is accessibility awareness. Everyone should be accommodated, especially when around 20 per cent of the population have special requirements. In fact, Microsoft said recently that nearly 50 per cent of people need to make some sort of adjustment to their system to interact with it. Having turned 50, I’m very aware of receiving email with very small fonts — people don’t want to use their spectacles to look at a Web page! –British Computer Society

We actually experimented with getting transcription done a few years back now. As I recall the service that was recommended to me was certainly “cheap and cheerful”, which made it feasible. However, they had a lot of problems actually delivering the product, and eventually we quit the project.

A shame. We would love to do as you suggest, it is a matter of finding the resources to do so.