Agreed. But to be fair, it's not developers calling these shots. Unless it's a priority of leadership, management, product managers, project managers, etc. then it's not going to be a priority of the dev team.
Sad, but true.
Sad, but true.
Eventually the company was sued by a former user who had been fired from a US government job for low performance when using the company's software. The company settled out of court for some amount of money, but never changed the company policies. To my knowledge, that company still doesn't take accessibility seriously despite the law and despite having settled at least one court case about it.
Perhaps the UK is able to enforce their requirements in a way to actually cause changes in behavior, but it wasn't the case in the US in the 2010s.