When there are no good ideas, a bad idea will do.
I read this somewhere and for the life of me, I can't remember where and when. But it's not true.
Here are some bad ideas that I've seen done or heard of only because no other ideas were on the table:
- Launching without any consideration for accessibility
- Skipping user research with people who use assistive technology
- Building a custom UI component library from scratch
- Deciding accessibility is purely a design problem
- Deciding accessibility is purely a development problem
- Deciding accessibility is purely a QA problem
- Forgetting keyboard navigation because "most users have a mouse anyway"
- Assuming automated testing tools catch everything
- Making accessibility the responsibility of one person
- Cutting accessibility work when timelines get tight
Bad ideas don't become good simply because they're the only ideas on the table. So here's my twist on that quote above.
When there are no good ideas, keep looking.