I am looking for a single word to describe something that should have been done from the beginning to describe the highlighted situation below:
Accessibility remediation after the fact is harder. Accessibility should be considered from the start as part of the design.
I know the following is not what I want, but I would like to have a sentence similar to: "Accessibility should be a first-principles consideration."
Best Answer
A more colloquial term would be "baked in" - indicating something that must be there from the start. (You can't bake a cake, and then add an egg to the batter. The eggs are baked in, or they aren't there; it's impossible to add one after the fact.)
An antonym is "tacked on", suggesting something that is added later but not integral to the design. (Hey.. for that matter, "integral" is a good word too.)
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Another possibility is "foundational" -- suggesting something that is actually part of the foundation. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foundational