Re: I'm kind of concerned about the culture surrounding usability
You're totally right. A lot of people don't give any consideration at all. Why should they, really? It's not really relevant to their lives (although I think as a UX designer you really SHOULD a tad). I really only care because I find the subject so fascinating. I genuinely enjoy exploring the world as a blind person, and thinking of ways to make it better. I would love to take a few days off just to try it out (if I could overcome my fear of potentially being exposed). So I'm certainly an exception to the rule. But even then I don't really fully know the blind experience since I'm not actually blind myself.
This kind of leads into one of the things I think is necessary for achieving quality accessibility - instead of a shotgun morality approach saying that "disabled people need accommodation", a more technical, fine tuned approach is needed. I don't think it should be my responsibility to accommodate other disabilities because my specialty is in blind accessibility and focusing on other forms of accessibility may dilute what I can contribute towards blind accessibility - rather, that someone who focuses on motor disability, or deafness, or cognitive disability, composes their own parts, and then they are overlayed together dependent ON the disability itself, through a portable and easy to implement API (relatively speaking). This specialization of work allows for the best possible solutions to be created while compiling it together in a portable API. This would, at least, improve software accessibility, and the approach may be adopted in physical models as well. We can hope at least.
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