Accessibility is often treated as a review step. That approach makes accessibility feel separate from design and development, even though many accessibility decisions are structural.
Semantic headings, readable contrast, keyboard navigation, skip-friendly layouts, useful link text, and predictable focus states are easier to include at the beginning than to retrofit later.
The cost of late fixes
When accessibility is addressed late, teams often have to revisit markup, styling, JavaScript behavior, and content patterns at the same time. Small issues become expensive because they are distributed across the project.
A starter template cannot solve every accessibility issue, but it can make better defaults easier. It can encourage semantic sections, simple navigation, visible states, and content that behaves well across devices.
Better defaults create better habits
The purpose of an accessibility-minded starter is not to claim perfection. It is to reduce friction. When the default structure is sensible, each new page starts from a better place.
That makes accessibility part of the workflow rather than a separate correction layer.