Nothing's really perfect, but most things, you can make better.
Accessibility is one of them.
Now I know what you're thinking. You don't have enough time to do all that.
But I bet you can find enough time to make a start. It doesn't even have to be this gigantic rewrite that promises perfect accessibility to everyone on all assistive devices all the time.
What you do today just needs to be small enough to move the needle for one person tomorrow.
You could:
- add alt text to images that actually describes what's in them
- check that your colour contrast meets basic standards (there are free tools for this)
- add proper headings (
h1,h2,h3etc) that outline your content structure - write descriptive link text instead of "click here" or "read more"
- add labels to your form fields so people know what to fill in
- try to zoom in to 200% and see if that breaks the layout
- add focus indicators so keyboard users can see where they are on the page
Some people will oppose what you're doing. They'll have plenty of excuses ready.
- We don't have disabled users anyway
- Accessibility is too expensive and we're already over budget
- It'll slow down development and we have tight deadlines
- We'll add accessibility later when we have more time
- It's going to make the site look ugly or break the design
- Only a small percentage of people actually need this stuff
But you'll always find allies. If you look.
About the worst thing you can do is ignore accessibility and hope it goes away. Because it won't.