Has *UX* any relationship to HCI (thank the blind for sight)?

So-called UX is a scourge.

My experience in industry has been (unsurprisingly) that companies care only for usability insofar as marketability (or lawsuits) are concerned (so looms the shadow of the American Federation for the Blind).

I spent the better part of a year working out how to make a Swing desktop app usable for the blind (not to mention a full prior year of HCI graduate-level training and consultation with a blind PhD. candidate for the same) into something tolerable by prevailing standards, for which I insisted on actual trials by blind users.

Today, I feel like we need an American Federation for the Sighted (or otherwise perceiving) to