Before, all I had to do was sit down and I could eat there. Now I can no longer go to the restaurant by myself.

Oh come on mate, surely any staff member will help you order. Give them the old, ‘sumimasen’! Most ( like all ) would be more than happy to help you order. People still exist.

I'm not even visually impaired but I find these "conveniences" annoying.

Oh come on mate, surely any staff member will help you order. Give them the old, ‘sumimasen’! Most ( like all ) would be more than happy to help you order. People still exist.

Put yourself in their shoes. You sit down at a table and if there is no button how are you going to call a waiter? If its a small place then yeah, just raising your hand and saying sumimasen will probably cut it. But if its in one of these big chain restaurants that have drastically reduced their wait staff, nobody is going to be there to respond to your “sumimasen”, and a flat screen tablet is going to be completely useless to you as a means of ordering.

Inclusivity, if there's such a word, is really working in Japan.

Oh come on mate, surely any staff member will help you order. 

Try spending a day around town with a blind person. It will be eye-opening for you. You don't know how many barriers there are until you share the experience.

Its mostly corporates who are pushing this, so yeah, as UAfan says, don't go to famiresu.

A possibly bigger issue is computerization of government services, so that you cannot apply for assistance, following injury or sudden illness for example, unless you can navigate an app on a smartphone that you don't have. This was shown in that "I Daniel Blake" movie five years ago.

As someone whose eyesight is not quite good enough to use a smartphone for everything, I know how he feels. At the very least, have the digitized menus on full-sized tablets with the fonts at the same sizes they've always been. No reason to make everything smartphone-dependent.