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While many are praising him for his transparency, it reveals a major problem and hurdle with building accessible products. Not to mention the ableism in stating several times, the need to "let everyone in" while choosing not to make sure the application is accessible. Statements like "Our number one focus is letting in the 300K+ users on our waitlist" assume that none of those people have a disability and/or all use technology in the same way.

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Why are we not working on... / Post.

Going through the posts this morning, seeing lots of feature requests and questions about our priorities, I thought I would share what we are focused on and why we are making certain decisions.
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Jamie Teh
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I might be misinterpreting you, but I'm not sure the issue here is that there is a (real) major problem and hurdle with building accessible products. If they're built accessible/inclusive from the beginning, the hurdle usually doesn't exist in the first place, at least not any more than any other software dev challenge. They'll certainly hit a massive challenge if they do it later. I agree there's a "perceived" hurdle, though.
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Homer, CPACC
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@jcsteh ... Correct. The problem is not with making sure products are accessible but the idea that accessibility is a feature that can be cut from scope. When in reality, if the process included accessibility best practices early on, and devs authored semantic markup, accessibility would be baked in so to speak. I could go deeper into how It's everyone's responsibility but I feel you understand that already.
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Homer, CPACC
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@jcsteh ... it's all good. No worries. It's good to clarify just in case someone else was thinking the same thing.

Also, I'd like to thank you. It's very cool that you worked on NVDA! That's my screen reader of choice.

@Jamie Teh
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