Design Systems

Examples of the best design systems that focuses more on accessibility.

Medium

Article

Designing Components with Accessibility in Mind

If you’re working on a Design System, you want to create a library of code and visual assets that you can create once, edit in one place, and use everywhere throughout your system or product; and you also want to do it right.

Material Design

Design System

Material Design

Accessibility in design allows users of diverse abilities to navigate, understand, and use your UI.

Web Toolkit

Design System

Web Experience Toolkit

An award-winning front-end framework for building websites that are accessible, usable, interoperable, mobile friendly and multilingual.

Reach UI

Design System

Reach UI

Reach UI seeks to become the accessible foundation of your React-based design system.

Assets CMS

Design System

Assets Framework

Assets gives you Section 508 compliant, cross-browser compatible UI components that you can use in your accessible web site or web application. Assets is an accessible, responsive, and modern framework.

Australia Gov

Design System

Australian Government Design System

The Australian Government Design System provides a framework and a set of tools to help designers and developers build government products and services more easily.

Rivet

Design System

Rivet Design System

Rivet is Indiana University’s design system. A collection of code and visual assets used to create patterns across software titles, Rivet makes it easier to build and maintain consistent user interfaces. Rivet is a focused set of front end UI components, as well as a place for documenting good UX, accessibility, and design practices.

USWDS Color

Design System

USWDS - The United States Web Design System

A design system for the federal government. We make it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites.

Gov UK

Design System

GOV.UK Design System

Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.

Accessibility Australia

Design System

Online Accessibility Toolkit

Everyone has a role to play in creating accessible online solutions.

Chakra UI

Design System

Chakra UI

A simple, modular and accessible component library that gives you the building blocks you need to build your React applications.

Lion

Design System

Lion

Lion is an ideal fundament with accessible components for building a Design System.

Salesforce Design

Design System

Lightning Design System

SLDS is a living open-source design system. Our UX team rolls out new UI updates with every release, expanding the design possibilities while keeping existing applications up to date and running seamlessly.

Salesforce Design

Design System

Introducing the Salesforce Color System

Color is a critical pillar in the foundation of any brand and experience. It is a core building block to any design system.

The Lookback

Design System

Building an Accessible Lookback - Color

We think all accessibility stories are interesting and unique, including our own! In this content series we’ll share how we’ve landed at our own guiding principles and what we’ve discovered about building and testing an accessible product for our customers.

IBM

Colors

Because, color is beautiful

Making an appealing and accessible palette for brands, products, and experiences.

Shopify

Design System

Shopify Polaris

A new look and feel, with an updated color palette, icons, and more. A reduction to our bundle size and accessibility features to make sure that the experiences you create work for everyone.

Paste

Design System

Paste

Design System for creating high quality, inclusive customer engagement experiences.

Atlassian

Design System

Atlassian Design System

Use Atlassian’s end-to-end design language to create simple, intuitive and beautiful experiences.

BBC GEL

Design System

BBC GEL

BBC and UX&D Design System that focuses on every day's stuff that makes things special, as well as the stuff that makes things happen.

Reakit

Design System

Reakit

Toolkit for building accessible UIs.

Default

Design System

Radix UI

Radix Primitives is a low-level UI component library with a focus on accessibility, customization and developer experience. You can use these components either as the base layer of your design system, or adopt them incrementally.

Default

Design System

Accessibility Guidelines

This web accessibility guide includes best practices, resources, and practical advice about how to ensure all users have equal access to information and functionality.

System Kyper

Design System

Kyper Design System

An accessible design system built by design team at MX.

USWDS Color

Design System

Using color - U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)

Color is a practical and emotional tool. It conveys personality, sets a tone, attracts attention, and indicates importance.

System React Aria

Design System

React Aria

A library of React Hooks that provides accessible UI primitives for your design system. React Aria provides accessibility and behavior according to https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.2/, including full screen reader and keyboard navigation support.

WCAG Accessibility Checklist

Case Study

Scaling accessibility with a design system

Geri Reid's case study about her experience of learning how to design accessible web components, then scale their impact through a design system.