WCAG Compliant React Template with Accessible Components

WCAG 2.1 AA compliance is not optional for serious products. Government contracts require it. Enterprise buyers audit for it. And roughly 1 in 12 men have some form of color vision deficiency, meaning your UI might already be failing users without you knowing. But building WCAG-compliant React components from scratch is painful. You need to handle focus management, ARIA attributes, keyboard interactions, live region announcements, proper heading hierarchies, and color contrast ratios across light and dark themes. Most teams skip it, bolt on accessibility later, and end up with a patchwork of fixes that never quite works. This React template solves that by starting with WCAG 2.1 AA compliance as the foundation, not an afterthought. Every component ships with the correct ARIA roles, keyboard handlers, focus indicators, and contrast ratios already in place. The template includes custom React hooks (useFocusTrap, useAnnounce, useReducedMotion, useKeyboardNavigation) that handle the hard parts of accessibility so you can focus on features. It includes 5 demo pages that cover the most common patterns in web applications: login forms with accessible error handling, dashboards with landmark navigation, data tables with keyboard-sortable columns, settings pages with proper fieldset grouping, and notification modals with focus trapping. The template is free, open source under the MIT license, and built on modern React 19 with Next.js 16, Tailwind CSS 4, and shadcn/ui.