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Accessibility Starts in the Figma File

Apply basic accessibility checks while designing, not after handoff.

If accessibility is only a handoff note, it is already late. Accessibility Starts in the Figma File matters because Figma work is rarely a private sketch; it becomes a shared contract between product, design, engineering, and QA. WCAG 2.2 POUR Principles gives you a way to make that contract explicit instead of relying on memory or visual taste. The practical mechanism is simple: encode intent in the object model, not just in the pixels. When spacing, naming, resizing, states, and hierarchy are represented in Figma's structure, a teammate can change copy, viewport, or state without rebuilding the design from scratch.…

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