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Accessibility Testing & Dashboard are live Introducing our component-driven approach to accessibility

In the meantime, here's a blog post introducing some of our tools. These particular projects are a passion of mine and it's been a privilege to design and help build them. Let me know what you think! Thanks!

www.chromatic.com/blog/accessi...

17.10.2025 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The combination of Accessibility Regression #testing and the Accessibility Dashboard in #Chromatic are a SOLID combo, especially when paired with #Storybook, and I can tell you with confidence that they are continuing to improve. I can't wait to share a few updates we've been cooking up.

17.10.2025 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not only have we been making a concerted effort across our products to improve accessibility, but we also built out some pretty cool tools to aid in that quest...

17.10.2025 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You would be surprised at how many issues are caused by something so small. For example, one of our engineers discovered that changing one line of code led to the fixing of 7,000 violations.

17.10.2025 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Capturing all of these states results in a fair amount of duplication (which I'm sure your apps and websites have as well in their reports). If a Button component has four accessibility violations, you will see those propagate to every view or component using that Button (as will your users).

17.10.2025 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Over the years, we have used our @storybook.js.org to as a tool to get excellent coverage of our various components in all their states. Everything from atomic components to full-on pages are captured. We even capture our email templates and #test those!

17.10.2025 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My team has fixed over 18 THOUSAND #accessibility violations over the last few months in @chromatic.com and we're continuing to make forward progress. SO stoked to see these kinds of results. How did we get so many?

17.10.2025 06:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

πŸ‘‹ Hey! Storybook/Chromatic designer (and WP core committer) here. I'm curious what you would like to see here and how it could help you. In the past, working on WordPress.com products, I would have loved some of the testing available in Storybook and visual tests from Chromatic.

30.09.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

maximize every window

04.09.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey! I could use a bit of help answering a question: Which products have you used that work well together as a holistic platform? Especially interested in OSS or combinations of #OSS and #SAAS. #design #frontend #web

02.09.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Accessibility Testing & Dashboard are live Introducing our component-driven approach to accessibility

here's the link if you're into blog posts and wanna try it asap
www.chromatic.com/blog/accessi...

08.07.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

we made a thing! go test some #accessibility and make your stuff even better!

08.07.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

you MUST listen to this. you SHOULD turn the volume up

03.07.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Nic Chan Nic Chan is a front-end web developer who specializes in design systems, accessibility and Shopify.

okay this site and posts are absolute gold www.nicchan.me

#designSystems #design #web #developer #accessibility

25.06.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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every #AI

24.06.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

as the lead designer on Storybook, it is my responsibility to bring the design of @storybook.js.org forward. when the industry evolves, we must adapt. thank you, #apple for leading the way with #liquidGlass. yes, it will be hard to read text, but sometimes it won't. to get involved please...

10.06.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Apple introduced Liquid Glass yesterday, so our designer @michaelarestad.bsky.social reimagined Storybook with Liquid Plexiglass πŸ˜…

10.06.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
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How big it is? SCSS tells you! THOUSANDS of queries. Slick @for loops! Resize your window and enjoy the worst abuse of media queries yet....

omg, i totally forgot about that. i need to dig those up. one of the things that inspired that was this lil' pen i made to measure viewports by generating a bunch of media queries. codepen.io/MichaelArest...

10.06.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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