Treat accessibility as product quality and legal risk

Accessibility is not a decorative compliance pass at the end. POUR gives product, design, and engineering a shared vocabulary. It also prevents a narrow view of accessibility that only checks contrast while ignoring keyboard traps, unclear errors, or broken assistive-technology semantics. What to scan Use a short checklist: who is affected, what the user sees, what data or content moves, what promise the company makes, and what evidence you would need if challenged. Common trap Teams often debate risk level before they have facts. A two-minute fact map usually changes the answer.

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