I often hear "let's wait til we hear from users" as a way of deferring #accessibility work from a new feature. This is not ok. It puts the burden on the user to tell you how the feature should work for them rather than starting from the assumption that all features should work fully for everyone from the beginning. It also signals to people who rely on accessibility that #a11y was considered secondarily. A11y isn't part of the feature for all users; rather, it IS the feature for some users.
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…might work for coffee…
•It is like security, either you make it part of the core design, or it will be next to impossible to retrofit.
Features for me assume you can branch off in git, add this specific thing, and then get it back into main. And with all the regressions you normally introduce in a11y this is just not how it work.s