I am a Queer Designer designing design systems and making accessibility more accessible.
Every day, I lead the Castor Design System and its small team where we try to build a user-friendly and accessible library of UI components. Through my studio, conferences, workshops and podcasts, I help Web projects to be more accessible and inclusive with a focus on cognitive impairments, and collaboration between designers and engineers.
Often, I can hear people saying that their design system will make their product accessible, that it will help them to enforce rules and to do more automated testing. But is it this simple? Will a design system make magically your product more accessible? Let’s see together the good things and the pain points of ensuring the accessibility of your product through a design system.
