I don’t know who needs to hear this. But as someone who grew up in a family that had to pick between which bill was getting paid this month, let me just say:

Wealth and access to wealth is one of the most widely experienced Accessibility issues. And tech has failed here greatly

- Is your pricing model fair?
- Do you offer discounts for people who can’t afford your service?
- How does your product behave when you go unpaid for a month+?
- Are you assuming your users can afford other things?
- Are you assuming poor people won’t want/need something?

There is an intersectionality in accessibility that we rarely talk about

It doesn’t matter how great your keyboard navigation is if 95% of the users that *need* it cannot afford your service on top of their healthcare expenses and/or inability to work

In many many cultures around the world, the poor are *hated* to the point of being killed for it. It’s seen as a moral failing and that it’s their fault they are poor

So you should be examining your biases towards poor people, because they exist and they are felt greatly

These biases can and likely are built into the products and services you build

You have almost no financial incentive to help them, but you should anyways, because very few people do