The best thing that happened to me in a meeting was leaving it thinking about a situation differently than when I walked in.
I remember sitting in a user testing session watching someone struggle with a form I'd built. They just couldn't use a dropdown with their screen reader. I remember being annoyed. My first reaction wasn't empathy, but mild irritation. Why couldn't they just figure it out?
Surely they were doing something wrong. But no, they weren't. My form was just not correctly built. I walked out of that meeting thinking the entire experience was a failure. Then I realised that's the whole point and the only way to learn anything.
Accessibility has a way of doing this to you.
You think you understand how someone uses the web. Then you watch a real person navigate with a screen reader and something changes. Your mental model breaks and you have to rebuild it somehow.
That's how you learn. Embarrassment has no place in learning.
Admitting you don't know is how you start. That "I don't know" primes you to change your mind.
The people who scare me the most are those that left that meeting I was in having learned nothing and being every bit as confident in their expertise as when they entered.
For them, nothing got in and nothing moved.
I urge you not to be that person.