AFAIK all the major texting programs have far more volunteers than they need. It’s such a great opportunity for people who live in areas without major canvassing operations (usually because everyone is disenfranchised by the electoral college), and it’s so much less anxiety-inducing than door-knocking or phone calls.
And I agree, by 2028 I’m sure it will be almost 100% bots.
Good point that building for accessibility is often much cheaper than retrofitting for it!
For every plastic straw alternative, I’ve read a harrowing explanation of why it’s awful for some particular kind of person. eg, this article
It’s worth coming up with piecemeal solutions to each of these problems. But I think for this and many other cases we still need a universal fallback of, “if someone says they need [specific low-cost accommodation] in order to function normally, let them have it and don’t give them shit about it.”