> My client was a utility company

> Adding a lot of pressure, this was a regulated monopoly

> Some requirements I derived: > ... > We had to meet WCAG accessibility (the team settled on AA rather than AAA)

The author doesn't doxx their employer by giving any dates, but if we take the story at face value and assume it took place in last few years, it is pretty shocking.

How does it take a single hero to be fighting for AA compliance as an afterthought for a project with this scope in the 2020s?

I've worked on much more niche projects that treated this with the respect it deserves as a quasi-legal requirement.