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Building Accessibility Into a Canvas-based Product
Figma implemented a synthetic 'Mirror DOM' to enable accessibility for its canvas-based renderer by syncing internal layers with hidden browser elements.
What: To bridge the gap between their canvas renderer and standard browser accessibility, Figma created a recursive React component that translates visual layers into a screen-reader-accessible structure.
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- DOM (Document Object Model): The programmatic interface for web documents, which screen readers use to interpret page content.
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