Aging & Wisdom Quote by Mike Davidson

There is a kind of early-web optimism baked into Davidson's promise: accessibility as a switch you can flip, a stylesheet you can swap, a quick refactor that turns a mess into virtue. The line "should soon have much better support" is doing PR work, smoothing over what sounds like a familiar confession from the era when "support for the disabled" was framed as an optional feature rather than a baseline obligation. The upbeat tone tries to convert guilt into progress.

The technical move he celebrates - putting content "in divs" and hiding everything but the "relevant chunks" via an alternate CSS file - reveals the subtext: accessibility is being treated as a presentation problem, not an information architecture problem. It's a very designerly misconception: if you can visually simplify, you can socially include. But hiding content doesn't equal making meaning legible. Screen readers, keyboard navigation, semantic structure, focus order, form labels, and ARIA weren't solved by div soup; they were often made worse by it. In that sense, the quote accidentally captures a transitional moment in web culture, when the industry was shifting from table layouts to CSS but hadn't yet internalized what semantic HTML was for.

Davidson's intent is earnest: modernize the site, make it cleaner, offer an "alternate" experience for users who need it. The context is a web still learning that accessibility isn't a special version of the internet you tuck behind a separate stylesheet. It's the same internet, built correctly from the start.