Accessibility Bugs Are Often Architecture Bugs

Accessibility bugs are easy to treat as small frontend mistakes.

A form field is missing a label. A button does not have a clear name. A modal opens, but keyboard focus stays behind it. A dropdown works perfectly with a mouse but becomes frustrating with a keyboard. An error message appears visually, but a screen reader user never hears it.

When issues like these show up, the usual response is straightforward: create a ticket, fix the screen, run another check, and move on. That works for a single issue. But when the same accessibility problems keep appearing across different parts of a product, they are usually not just isolated bugs.

They are architecture problems.

One missing label may be a bug. Repeated missing labels across many forms suggest that the frontend does not have a reliable form pattern. One broken modal may be a bug. Inconsistent focus behavior across dialogs...

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