eBay’s newly open-sourced device, Embrace, was constructed to make accessibility annotation simple, clean, and easy, to make sure that accessibility is a core a part of the design expertise, fairly than one thing crammed in later.
The plugin was developed by members of the accessibility and design groups at eBay and is launched for public use on Figma.
The plugin will help an app designer choose a body for annotations, after which current an inventory of steps to make sure that the design meets accessibility requirements. As an illustration, Embrace will create an inventory of pictures utilized in a mockup. The designer can mark a picture as informative, and the plugin will immediate them to incorporate alt textual content, which permits display readers to explain the picture.
There are additionally many additions to the plugin. One in every of them makes a replica of the design with textual content enlarged to 200%, so the designer can simply see the place textual content might overflow, or the place the design might break, which exhibits how the app would possibly look for individuals who enlarge textual content on their units.
Different additions embody functionalities for coloration distinction accessibility checks, strategies for creating commonly-used layers and frames throughout the Figma doc, and utility capabilities for working with Figma frames and strings.
Further particulars on the mission can be found right here.
