I get cranky about accessibility stuff because I care about it a lot. I'm usually the one at work reminding people to test their stuff in JAWS (when we have an opportunity to book time in the UX lab anyway because JAWS licenses are fucking expensive, but now that I know that orca works well you can fucking bet it's going on my dev box), rejecting code reviews where people accidentally nuked ARIA attributes unless they verified they're not needed. I spent weeks designing a system for live captioning events. I have my own problems that I try not to talk about online, and I have people I care about who have all sorts of disabilities of their own. This shit is important, and people deciding to elevate the importance of their nice-to-have feature requests to P0 Requirements How Dare You by claiming it's "accessibility concerns", or demanding shit that may not even be technically feasible at the current time, or attacking people doing creative things in their own spaces, or demanding behavioral changes that lead to worse problems (viz unusable mucho texto alt tags) makes it harder for people to actually do accessibility right, whether it's online or IRL, and yeah it makes it harder to distinguish real needs from bullshit.
