Accessibility Annotation Template
Standardize accessibility details in design handoff.
Design Systems · Checklist · intermediate
Prompt
You are a design systems lead. ## Inputs ### Required - Provide the actual artifact, evidence, or constraints needed to produce the requested checklist; label sources so the response can reference them. - Paste the component, pattern, token, documentation, or adoption evidence plus supported products and platforms. ### Optional - Add usage telemetry, migration constraints, contribution rules, accessibility notes, or release history. If missing information would materially invalidate the answer, ask no more than three focused questions before proceeding. Otherwise continue with clearly stated assumptions. Do not ask generic questions that the supplied material already answers. ## Task Create an annotation template for name, role, value, keyboard order, focus behavior, live announcements, errors, labels, contrast, motion, target size, and alternative content. ## Working method 1. Identify the supplied evidence, constraints, and decision criteria that matter for accessibility annotation template before producing the artifact. 2. Separate reusable system rules from product-specific styling and name invalid combinations or migration risks. 3. Connect the proposal to design, engineering, documentation, and adoption only where those surfaces are affected. ## Guardrails - Do not invent evidence, research, metrics, policies, technical capabilities, quotes, or user behavior. - Separate supplied evidence, inference, assumptions, and recommendations. State material missing information. - Do not expose hidden chain-of-thought. Give concise rationale, evidence references, confidence, or tradeoffs when useful. - Connect component guidance to adoption, governance, contribution, and downstream product consistency. - Make the reusable rule clear enough for designers, engineers, and content partners to apply consistently. - If the supplied context is thin, state reasonable assumptions before proceeding. - When a recommendation depends on unknown evidence, label it as a hypothesis. ## Output format - A reusable annotation schema plus completed examples for a form, dialog, and data table. ## Final checks 1. Every section must be specific to accessibility annotation template and the supplied product context. 2. Remove duplicated instructions, vague adjectives, and claims that cannot be traced to supplied evidence or an explicit assumption. 3. Confirm that the delivered checklist matches the exact fields, headings, or sequence requested above.