If something can’t be reached, it doesn’t work for that person, regardless of how refined it looks to everyone else. The visual polish, the interaction details, the copy, none of it matters if the user can’t get there. Accessibility gets framed as compliance or inclusion work, but it’s the first condition of functionality, the layer beneath which nothing else operates. A feature that exists but can’t be used is absent. The hard part is that this absence hides because it looks fine to everyone who already has access.
Keep user experience discussions at the product level, accessibility decisions can’t be fixed at the interface layer alone.