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"Legal to do so, but you have to note it as part of any advertisement" might be a reasonable compromise. Just like you can sell rat poison as medicine, so long as you label your warfarin correctly, you should be able to sell your ramp-free hotel as accommodations so long as you warn any prospective guests ahead of time. I suspect most small businesses would build the ramps anyway, because it won't just be wheelchair users who will leave "must be accessible" enabled as a permanent search filter.
I think the best steelman I can come up against even that level of compromise is: lots of people would leave such a filter enabled today, but perhaps that's mostly because it took government force to push the majority culture to the point where using such filters would be seen as a good deed and a minor inconvenience, not a weird ideology or an impractical hardship. Likewise for bigotry: people are much more open to other races/etc. today, so legally requiring nearly everybody to provide non-discriminatory service and employment seems like a quaint atavism or at most a way to catch a few secretive villains ... but how much of that is because most people (or at least the earlier generations from whom they learned their culture) were often effectively required to e.g. interact more with other races back when that requirement required serious enforcement and opposition to it wasn't seen as villainous? Even if their "post-judice" from such interaction wasn't always a perfect vision of equality, it might have been "close enough" in many cases where their pre-judice wasn't. There's a Simpsons joke in Homer's Phobia about how if only all gay men could save Homer's life, like the episode's guest star did, then things would be fine ... but I suspect for many people the hurdle to cross wasn't "had my life saved in a dramatic adventure", it was just "regularly spent time among people I'd have been prejudiced to avoid, and yet nothing dramatic happened at all".
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