TkDodo Dominik Dorfmeister • 11/17/2025

Tooltip Components Should Not Exist

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This article critiques the common implementation of generic Tooltip components in design systems, highlighting accessibility issues like lack of keyboard interactivity. Using examples from libraries like Material UI, it explains why low-level Tooltip abstractions fail and suggests moving towards higher-level, inherently accessible component APIs instead.

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