Real talk: Selective clairvoyance

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Apparently we can see the future.

Six months before we write a single line of code, we know exactly what features users want.

We can predict market trends. We know people will want a dark mode toggle. We can forecast which integrations will matter.

But we can't foresee that people with disabilities will also want to use those integrations?

Nope. Can't see that. Total blind spot. That's just impossible to predict.

It's not like people with disabilities have existed this whole time or anything. It's not like WCAG guidelines have been around for decades. No, this is truly shocking, unforeseeable stuff.

We're fortune tellers who can predict everything except the present. Amazing.

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