Around one in five people live with some form of disability. Many more experience temporary or situational limitations: a broken arm, bright sunlight on a screen, a noisy train. Accessibility is not an edge case.
Start in design
Colour contrast, focus states and touch target sizes are design decisions. We check them in Figma before a single line of code is written.
Build with semantics
Native HTML elements come with accessibility built in. A real button is focusable, keyboard-operable and announced correctly. Custom elements need all of that rebuilt by hand.
Test with people
Automated tools catch around a third of issues. The rest you find by navigating with a keyboard, using a screen reader and, most importantly, testing with people who rely on assistive technology every day.
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