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Design Systems Only Fix Accessibility When Every Component Uses Them

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Fixing accessibility at the design system level is highly efficient because a single corrected component can propagate the fix across all instances that use it. However, the approach has a critical blind spot: hand-rolled or legacy components that bypass the design system entirely will not inherit any fixes. This means a codebase can appear accessible on pages built from the canonical component while still failing on pages that reimplemented patterns independently. Truly completing a source-level fix requires auditing the entire codebase for bypassed implementations and either migrating them to the component or patching them individually. A design system only fulfills its accessibility promise when the accessible pattern is also the easiest and most consistently adopted path.

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