A guided look at the accessibility tree and how it can help you, using my personal experience of developing accessible web features. Why we need to know about this In digital accessibility, only a minority of the barriers we could create for our users can be caught through automated tools. Often, especially in development, we are swift…

Have you ever come across a component in a library or design system that seems to do… everything? — For some stakeholders, these components are magical in their flexibility; for others, frustrating in their maintenance and configuration. It’s easy for a component to become bloated and its purpose increasingly ambiguous. I’ve been working with my brilliant teammates on a design system and framework at the BBC for almost two…