accessibility as usability

I believe that accessibility is the final aspect of usability, and that there should not be laws governing web accessibility. Those laws could hinder the cause of wider web accessibility rather than help it. The current minefield of (mis)information, rules and half-cocked legislation is frightening developers, and should not over-ride the platform for greater creative flexibility. Education and advocacy would be far more successful in the long-term than legislation. The web will become more accessible when users stop tolerating inaccessible sites. For example, look at the miserable attempt to curtail spam by law. These companies keep sending unsolicited email through every loophole they found, and that is only because there are people respond to it. Once they stop responding to these Emails, the spam business model will die out.