alt Hacker NewsAccessibility is a great thing to have and strive for, but it cannot be the number one design principle.
Imagine if everything around us would be designed for blind people.
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TZubiri • today at 10:59 AM
Not necessarily designed for, but accessible to.
Additionally in sysadmin, blind-users are not just some random group, the ability not to use one's eyes is central to the Command Line Interface. You could always in theory get by with just a keyboard and a TTS that reads out the output, it's all based on the STDIO abstractions that are just string streams, completely compatible and accessible to blind, and even deaf users. (Unlike GUIs)
I suspect blind people imagine that a lot.
The idea is to design for all (or as many as feasible), it's not a binary either/or.