I understand both sides on this! I think that next time, we could have a compromise of allowing a week of grace period to do bug/accessibility fixes, then not being allowed to touch it until the end of judging. Then, after judging, we'd be allowed to do as many bugfixes/translations/accessibility updates as we want.
This is just my take though, and I made a very programming-lite game, and this is my first gamejam, so take my words with a grain of salt aha. I hope we get to do another jam next year!