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I'd be interested to see the man-hours-needed : people-helped ratio when it comes to user accessibility. There's certainly a threshold where it simply doesn't make sense to put in a man year's worth of work to cater to a proportionally very small percentage of the population.

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I'd like to politely challenge your assumption that accessibility concerns are relevant only to a "proportionally very small percentage of the population". It's a common myth in this space.

Disabled people represent between 10% and 20% of the world population, and that's not even including those who don't identify as disabled but would nevertheless benefit from more accessible technology. If you've ever adjusted the text size in your browser or enabled captions while watching media, this group includes you.

With this same argument, could we please also stop catering to the "special needs" of the LGBTQ+ community? That also affects only a tiny fraction of the population, yet everyone has to live with huge dropdown lists for 25 genders, web forms that ask for "pronouns", and (e.g. in Germany) the "gendering" of every single word?

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