Rethinking accessible UI patterns

Most projects don't fail at the code level — they fail in the weeks before a single line is written.

The Setup

User interviews conducted after launch are worth ten times the interviews conducted during discovery. You're no longer validating assumptions — you're listening to reality.

Component APIs are contracts. Breaking changes have downstream consequences that ripple through teams and timelines. Versioning is not optional once you're at scale.

Going Forward

Lighthouse scores matter, but they're a proxy. Real performance work means profiling on mid-tier Android hardware on a throttled connection — not a MacBook on broadband.

• User interviews conducted after launch are worth ten times the interviews conducted during discovery. You're no longer validating assumptions — you're listening to reality.
• User interviews conducted after launch are worth ten times the interviews conducted during discovery. You're no longer validating assumptions — you're listening to reality.

The web is the most accessible publishing medium ever created. How we build it determines whether that remains true.