The Cost of Poor Front-End Decisions

A front-end decision can look cheap at the time and keep charging us later. An inaccessible custom control is one example: we get the appearance quickly, then spend time recreating behaviour the browser already had.

I try to include maintenance in the initial conversation. Who will change this, and what will they need to understand first? It's difficult to estimate precisely, but ignoring the question doesn't make the cost disappear.