@menelion @elettrona Thank you both for this, and for reading the piece. I've been following the thread and wanted to add the part of my article that I think matters most, because it hasn't quite come up yet.
Disability stacks. Being blind is one accessibility equation. Being blind plus chronically ill plus cognitively fatigued is a completely different one. A blind person without those extra conditions can absorb the cost of extra keystrokes, or the time to fix a broken self-hosted server. I can't always. On my worst days, eating is an achievement. "Just SSH in and check the logs" isn't something I can do.
So when the open-source community says "go fix it yourself," it isn't just dismissive. It's asking me to spend energy I don't have, on a bad day, to make a tool work that should have worked from the start. I'm a developer. I build things — NVDA add-ons, a game. But I can't fix every kernel and every office suite, and I shouldn't have to.
Accessibility isn't a feature to add at the end. It's the door. If the door isn't there, I can't get in to do the fixing in the first place.