WCAG 2.2 Accessibility for React Developers — Practical Guide

I'm Safdar Ali, a frontend engineer in Bengaluru. Last quarter I audited a client dashboard that looked polished — clean Tailwind, smooth transitions, Lighthouse performance in the 90s — and failed basic keyboard navigation in under two minutes. Tab order jumped randomly, modals trapped nothing, and icon-only buttons had no labels. WCAG 2.2 is not a legal checkbox for enterprise contracts alone. It is how you ship React UI that works for everyone: screen reader users, keyboard-only users, people