Content warning: Food, accessibility
Earlier today, a respected colleague drew a comparison between what a street food scene needs to thrive, and what the #accessibility industry does not have. I've been thinking a lot about it ever since.
In Mexico City, getting tortillas is not hard. They show up in an endless array of forms, but not everybody mixes and prepares the masa dough by hand. They can, and maybe they'll be known for delicious, from-scratch tortillas at the cost of capacity and throughput.
But you have other options too: buy the freshly pre-prepared dough in bulk, and form and cook it based on your needs. Buy tortillas churned out by a machine, and resell them. Obtain a machine of your own, and churn out tortillas by the bucket load yourself.
The most appropriate option depends on your circumstances. For instance, if you're focused primarily on the filling of your tacos, maybe machine tortillas are fine, even if they tend to be a bit thinner so might require you to double up.
But in web accessibility, your circumstances don't make much of a difference. You may be a one-person outfit, running everything from the frontend to accounting. You may be part of a multi-billion dollar company with offices around the world, and a ubiquitous presence. If you want an accessible multiselect combobox, it's hand-crafted masa dough all the way down regardless.