Accessibility Design Toolkit

Make accessibility tests a part of your daily design workflows

As a part of BrowserStack’s services, Accessibility Design Toolkit is a Figma plugin that helps designers create inclusive products by automatically detecting accessibility issues directly in Figma. This ensures compliance with accessibility requirements right from the design phase. With automated checks, intelligent suggestions, and component-level scanning, teams can shift-left to ensure accessibility compliance while designing, thus reducing development costs.

Here’s a short demo of the toolkit in action:

Benefits of addressing accessibility issues at the design stage

With the Accessibility Design Toolkit, you have to ability to address a lot of the accessibility issues at the design stage itself. This offers several benefits like:

• Streamlined design, development, and QA processes: Enhances collaboration between designers and developers by embedding accessibility context upfront
• Cost and time savings: Identifying accessibility issues earlier in the development cycle prevents costly rework in the later stages. Also, fixing these issues in the design stages is significantly more efficient than during development or post-release.
• Achieve compliance: Proactive design practices simplify adherence to standards like WCAG, reducing the risk of non-compliance and associated penalties.
• Scalable accessibility practices: Incorporating accessibility into design systems enables consistent, reusable, and scalable practices across teams and projects.

Key features

Explore these features that the Accessibility Design Toolkit offers:

• Automated accessibility violation detection for color contrast and touch targets
• Intelligent heading hierarchy and focus order suggestions
• Vision simulator for color blindness testing
• Comprehensive accessibility checklist aligned with WCAG guidelines
• Auto-generated developer handoff notes tailored for Web, Android, and iOS