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New Tech, less disabled friendly

Anyone noticed how new tech, smartphones etc are getting smoother/thinner and less easy to hold? I try and find grippy cases but buttons/chargers (vol etc) also tiny and fiddly. My DAB radio has blue-tac blobs on them so I can feel the buttons that are almost flush!
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Oh yes! Recent Governments have almost totally dismantled the DDA and on the Web we're being dictated to by large entities such as Facebook and PhotoBucket into using a narrow (and dwindling) range of browsers that are not accessible in any acceptable sense. Even Opera, which was the best out there, went over to using the horrid and invasive Google Chrome engine, destroying most of its accessibility features in the process.
It's total laziness on their programmers' part and in complete contravention of Web accessibility laws across the World that are clearly toothless! Their managements are being blinded by a bending of the science simply because they don't understand the technology. See it in terms of the parent not able to keep up with and monitor their child.
It totally destroys the point of having an open web following a set of guidelines that are not only accessible, but provide a better experience for everyone.
There are no web accessibility laws as such so there's nothing to enforce. The DDA also no longer exists. There is just EA 10 and you can certainly use that against inaccessible web sites.
In terms of inaccessible tech there is plenty of choice out there but how accessible is varies from person to person.