Designing for everyone: How we built accessibility into our design system

Most design systems include a brief accessibility section or a few links to WCAG guidelines, but accessibility often remains an afterthought. At Tatra Banka, we took a different path: we embedded accessibility directly into every component of our design system. In this talk, Peter will share how their team transformed accessibility from a checklist item into a built-in system feature. You’ll see their approach to defining structure, roles, and states for each component, as well as setting up clear design and development rules for focus, colour contrast, screen reader behaviour and much more. Additionally, you’ll see how they integrated these specifications into the handoff process between design and development.

This is not a theory or a set of guidelines, it’s a real case study from the banking world, where accessibility isn’t optional. You’ll walk away with a step-by-step understanding of how to start embedding accessibility into your own design system, regardless of scale or maturity.