I want to kill accessibility rework.
The kind where someone builds something, figures out it has some accessibility issues and fixes them, only for the next people to repeat the whole process months later. If you already paid to learn that lesson once, paying again takes time away from work you wanted to ship.
That's why I've spent these emails on decision records. I care about what they can save you down the line.
When people can find the earlier reasoning, understand where it applies and question it when necessary, they have a better chance of avoiding the same mistake before they build it. This means fewer avoidable fixes interrupting your planned work. It means less time revisiting decisions everyone thought you settled. It means fewer releases depending on someone remembering a conversation from six months ago. It means less rework.
It also means teams can make more decisions without asking an accessibility expert to review every detail.
None of that comes from having a folder full of records though. It's still up to you to put useful reasoning where people will find it, keep it current and give them room to apply their own judgement. You'll still be testing and handling difficult questions and changes of direction. Some rework is required when genuinely new information comes up. Let's be honest, I don't expect a document to prevent that.
I want to reduce the rework that happens because information you already had never got to the people who needed it.
So how do you start?
Pick one accessibility decision your team spent real time figuring out. Make it useful to the next team before they face the same problem. Write it down in a decision record.
You already paid with your time and resources to figure that one out. The next team shouldn't have to pay with rework.