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Exactly. Accessibility is a huge investment of time and adds a lot of technical debt if done incorrectly, really doesn't make sense until the entire library is somewhat mature and starts being ised in production at large enterprises. Can't believe OP is complaining about screen readers in a beta release.

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IMO, it's just a formulaic, virtuous sort of comment. An easy bikeshedding criticism. That's why we always see it on everything.

Again, me and you and everyone else definitely want production apps to be accessible! And yeah, it might rule out the selection of an immature library like this one for a larger scale project that has more concerns about missing out on the potential user base that have accessibility concerns. Fair enough.

I'd say it's too late then. You have to make at least some assumption beforehand, otherwise you'll have to rewrite huge portions of your lib. Sorry, I kindly disagree.

It's like adding unit tests AFTER you've written everything. Just don't do it.

>It's like adding unit tests AFTER you've written everything. Just don't do it.

Funny you say this, because that's exactly what I do :)

I don't start unit tests on a new project/library until I flesh out most of the major components as I'm sure I'd be rewriting things multiple times as I'm iterating in the beginning. My guess is this method isn't uncommon....

Yeah, I know - that's how it's mostly done. I guess a Mish-Mash might make some sense? Because, often, I see people in my team creating "ConsoleApplication1"-kind of projects, so that they can build their components and already test them. That's when I mostly say "write a Unit test instead."

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