dai11y 22/03/2021

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Screenshot of a "UX Designer" job ad on the Indeed website, with numbered and coloured dots alongside the job location, salary and interaction buttons, to show reading order. — Screenshot from the A11y Annotation Kit. The grey dots denote reading order, and the red dots indicate elements that can receive focus.

Stephanie Hagadorn, UX Design Lead at Indeed, writes about the creation of the “A11y Annotation Kit“. This is a Figma-based ‘accessibility library’, designed to improve the handover from designer to developer and prevent both roles from making the same old accessibility mistakes around things like colour contrast issues.
See the screenshot above: designers can, for example, use grey and red numbered dots to indicate the desired reading and tab order of a component. In addition, the kit gives designers a constant refresher and summary of a11y guidelines, which have been translated from the more “verbose” WCAG specifications.
Stephanie says: “All components are prefilled with the correct CSS or HTML elements so designers don’t have to remember things like the autocomplete value for a street field (it’s “address-level1”) or the correct landmark role for a footer (that’s “contentinfo.”). This helps developers use the right values as well.”

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