Deadlines feel real.
But it's something you totally made up.
You picked a date, you put it in a calendar and everyone agreed to believe in it. It's make believe. And that's fine. It's actually desirable because deadlines are what get things shipped.
But here's the shit part.
There's a constant tension between doing things right and meeting those deadlines.
The things you think matter less inevitably get cut. A lot of the times, that's accessibility. And when you cut accessibility to meet that fictional deadline, you're making a real decision about real people.
Unlike deadlines, screen readers, keyboards, switch controls, voice navigation and braille displays are real things. And people relying on them are real as well. They're not edge cases either.
Ah, but you'll fix it later.
"We'll fix it later" only exists because of the deadline you invented. Understand that it's fiction, see through it, and later disappears along with it.