I Used AI to Build an Accessibility Plugin. Here's What I Learned

When Confluence accessibility and content checklists weren’t landing with designers, I stopped asking designers to change their habits and started changing their tools.

Using AI-assisted development, I built a custom Figma plugin that brought accessibility and content checks directly into design workflows — no tab-switching, no policing required.

This session covers how I built it, what made it stick, and what I learned — including the things I found out after I’d already left the organisation.

Kobi Jae Masterson

Kobi is a Senior Accessibility Specialist based in Naarm (Melbourne), with a decade of experience across all the most traumatic sectors — advertising, banking, education, and utilities. As a recovering UX designer with some (dangerous) coding skills and a cautiously optimistic relationship with AI, Kobi now atones for the sins of their inaccessible past by constantly being “that person” — challenging assumptions, talking about equity over equality, and sparking that “ah ha” moment in others. They regulate their neuro-spicy brain with dopamine doses of colour and enjoy the company of a very soft cat.