Design system annotations, part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components
How to build custom annotations for your design system components or use Figma’s Code Connect to help capture important accessibility details before development.
Jan Maarten
Jan Maarten (he/him) is a designer and accessibility specialist living on unceded Duwamish lands. He has two decades of experience as a full-stack designer wearing every kind of hat, from end-to-end product design and brand to strategy and leadership. In his previous role on the CVS Health Inclusive Design team, he co-created several new accessibility annotation toolkits for web and iOS. He is currently a Senior Accessibility Designer at GitHub, helping teams shift left and improving design infrastructure.
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Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components
The Accessibility Design team created a set of annotations to bridge the gaps that design systems alone can’t fix and proactively addresses accessibility issues within Primer components.