ACCESSIBILITY GETTING DROPPED IN THE PROCESS

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Accessible designs can still ship as inaccessible products because early approval only confirms a concept is possible to build accessibly, not that it will be. Problems like missing alt text or broken keyboard focus emerge not from lack of developer knowledge but from accessibility having no owner during handoffs between design, development, and QA. Fixing this requires documenting accessibility requirements as testable criteria, assigning ownership at each stage, and adding earlier checkpoints instead of relying solely on a final audit.