The problem is not that software designers don't care, but that accessibility is very expensive and doesn't get rewarded proportionally by the market. I like t

The problem is not that software designers don't care, but that accessibility is very expensive and doesn't get rewarded proportionally by the market. I like to automate boring menial tasks. I've often had the problem though that I automate something as a cli tool for myself, then colleagues ask me how I did that, and I show it to them. The first thing they want is a GUI, and I tell them I don't have the time for that. Creating a GUI would take more time than the cli app itself. Often creating a good GUI will take more time than the automation. And then when you want to add in accessibility that takes even more time to get right. All of a sudden you need a team to do that, because there are almost infinite ways to be disabled. And many different systems you need to Target. Low vision, different types of color blindness, low hearing, etc. Every accommodation takes time to make. It's just not feasible to make everything accessible. I know how to design a good UX, but I also know it's hard. And making an accessible UX for everyone, is even harder. Making that UX work on every old system like mentioned in the article adds another multiplier.