RE: front-end.social/@stephaniewal

Sadly this is not always the case: sometimes accommodations for one disability can make things worse for people with a different disability (e.g. bright lights for those with low vision are bad for people with light sensitivity). This is called "access clash".

I don't know a term for when disability accommodations make the service worse for non-disabled people, but that also happens: for instance, subtitles often ruin comic timing, large icons and text reduce usable screen real estate, and ramps are unsafe in icy weather. In both cases it can help to make accessibility features opt-in, but that adds complexity and assumes everyone can make an individual choice - often impossible in group settings.

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