Inaccessible software is an engineering failure, not a design failure. Full-stack hiring practices, AI-generated code stripped of semantic context, and compliance-first development culture have converged to produce a systemic crisis that most teams are actively ignoring.
The argument here is not about aesthetics or empathy. It is about technical debt with legal exposure. Screen readers break on div-soup. Keyboard navigation collapses under JavaScript-heavy frameworks. AI code assistants reproduce inaccessible patterns at scale because they were trained on inaccessible codebases.
Read the original to understand the specific failure modes at each layer of the stack, why WCAG conformance scores mean almost nothing in practice, and what engineering culture changes, not design sprints, are the only path forward.
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