Most designers ship interfaces that break for millions of users. And never find out.

Screen readers announce every element on your screen. Vague link labels, missing heading structure, icon buttons with no accessible names. They all become noise. Or silence. Users relying on assistive technology navigate your product like a map with no street names.

I spent a long time treating accessibility as a compliance checkbox. Something to handle after the real design work was done.

That changed when I actually ran a screen reader on interfaces I had shipped. It announced a button as "image." Just "image." Nothing else.

Open VoiceOver on your Mac, close your eyes, and navigate the last interface you shipped. What you hear is what millions of people experience every time.