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In theory, yes. In practice, most websites continue to be hostile for differently abled people, with the vast majority of websites continuing to have poor accessibility features. There might be a few things worth still going to the internet for, but not that many. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
It's a matter of motivation. It's not like the surface web is very worthwhile... Imagine if you were introduced to the web today. Twitter is on fire, Reddit is nonsense karma bots, common searches return unhelpful SEO garbage, YouTube has 10 ads to watch a 10 minute video... Why would you bother?
Doesn't mean there's not much worthwhile, it's just buried. They have braille readers, you can learn to use a screen reader at crazy speeds, and an endless amounts of sites use a consistent layout that a screen reader could easily handle, let alone specialty devices
It's just one more layer of bullshit that turns people away