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Design Systems Can't Automate Away All of Your Accessibility Considerations
Accessible design systems dramatically reduce remediation work, but automated checkers alone can't catch every issue. Critical gaps include misused components, unmanaged keyboard focus, color-only status indicators, poor text labels, and illogical heading structures. Real accessibility requires human judgment, disabled user testing, and attention to the full end-user experience beyond component-level concerns.
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