I hate throwing my own field under the bus but I will never understand some designers& #39; obsession with strange, inaccessible design patterns, almost as if that inaccessibility makes them more interesting or innovative. Guess what! It doesn& #39;t!

In fact, the opposite is true. If you take the effort to address a meaningful constraint, you design work will always be better for it. Especially if you reframe success from "seeming cool to an in-group" to "being understood and appreciated by a broad, inclusive audience."

Also, I don& #39;t know who needs to hear this, but a11y is not an "all or nothing" process. You don& #39;t have to boil the ocean! We& #39;ve established strategies for assessing and tackling large amounts of work/bugs/tech debt, etc. Why does tech suddenly lose this ability when it& #39;s a11y?

gettin& #39; heated at 5:30pm on a Friday, time to log off