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Very timely! I've been working on making a site accessible to screen readers and people who navigate via the command line. One thing I have been wondering is how often people who use screen readers are navigating with CSS/styles turned off. It seems like screen readers would work better without CSS (for example on semantically correct elements that are getting decorated with CSS), but I don't know if that is common or not. Anyone have any experience with that?

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The styling doesn't change the semantics for the screen reader. Most people who use a screen reader also have some vision so disabling a site's CSS entirely would remove meaning that is, intentionally or not, conveyed by the styling. It's more common to modify a site's styling to be more usable, though that's not a reason to skip making a site's styling more accessible to begin with by having sufficient color contrast, large enough text, etc.

One bit of styling best avoided because it creates confusion for users operating a site by keyboard is the "order" property used with Flexbox and CSS Grid, it will change the visual order of elements but not their order in the DOM.

That makes sense, thanks for the reply. I hadn't thought about low vision users using screen readers.

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