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Well, that would help with making technology more accessible. Developers, especially highly paid ones, are as selfish as anyone else on the planet. If you have
by cormacrelf 5y ago
Well, that would help with making technology more accessible.
Developers, especially highly paid ones, are as selfish as anyone else on the planet. If you have a strategy to make them care about literally a single other person, I suggest you go for it.
- imwillofficial 5y agoMaking software and using software are different
- joshstrange 5y agoA little voice in the back of my head knew accessibility might be brought up with that comment. Accessibility falls into the same category for me as users with slow machines, yes we should be doing it and the right way to do it isn't to hobble developers. Lack of accessibility (and low-end testing) is often due to management refusing the extra time to do, not because developers are just selfish. I can't tell you how many times I've been promised more time or more devices to test on and then we get close to a deadline and no one cares anymore and questions about said promises are met with "just ship it, we can do that later" or similar.
- jaywalk 5y agoAccording to your argument, I should be blindfolded and use a screen reader while I'm developing. That's just absurd.
- cormacrelf 5y agoMy argument was that it is a rational business decision to sometimes constrain your developers by making them use what the users will.As the upper comment said people at Google often propose. If you do not, then they get utterly out of touch. I didn’t say you have to do it all the time.