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# Anna E. Cook

Writes the Digital Arcana newsletter on the intersection of design systems, AI and accessibility. Argues that AI cannot repair an inaccessible system and instead inherits and amplifies its structural gaps, so the problem is governance rather than tooling. Published a 30-item structural workbook for design system leads to govern systems while holding accessibility at AI scale, and traced how accessibility erodes in the handoff from a base system to a product system.

## Links

- site: https://annaecook.com/
- writing: https://annaecook.com/writing

## Edges

- authored -> AI Doesn't Fix Accessible Systems. It Depends on Them., Governing Accessible Design Systems in the AI Era, How accessibility gets lost between base and product design systems, Structural Workbook for AI + Accessible Design Systems
- focus -> Accessibility under generation, Adoption and mandate, Agentic governance, Component contracts, Documentation schema, Maturity and readiness models

## Sources

- https://annaecook.com/
- https://annaecook.com/writing