I've heard some serious shit said in meetings.
"We don't care about blind people." —Shithead McHorrible
After I pulled my eyebrows down from the top of my head, the only words that I could muster were "Those words actually just came out of your mouth."
Here's some other things we don't care about:
- BlackBerries
- Windows Phones
- Poor people
- Androids
- IE8
- IE7
- Definitely IE6
- Colorblind people
- 7" tablets
- Firefox
- Screen readers
- Opera Mini
- e-ink Kindles
- Kindle Fires
- Nokias
- non-JS users
- Sony PSPs
- Touch users
- Keyboard users
- Foreign language people
These are all actual things I've heard expressed from either clients or colleagues. And here's why we don't care about them:
- Those people aren't our target demographic
- Nobody browses the Web on those devices
- No one would ever do this from their [outdated/clunky/quirky] device
- It would cost too much to support them
- Nobody disables Javascript
- They should just upgrade their browser
- Nobody holds their device that way
- They can't afford our products anyways
We sound like assholes.
Next time you find yourself intentionally depriving someone an experience—to acquire knowledge, to complete a task, to do something online that can make their life even just a little better—picture yourself standing in front of that person in real life, looking them square in the eyes, then firmly and definitively saying "Fuck you."
