Building GitHub’s next chapter in accessibility
Explore our update on GitHub’s accessibility strategy, and learn how you can join us in building a culture of accessibility.
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Open Source GitHub Copilot 
Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process
Learn about the experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting.
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Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion
AI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers—turning a chaotic backlog into continuous, rapid resolutions.
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How GitHub Copilot enabled accessibility governance process improvements in record time
See how we turned weekly accessibility signals into an automated, accountable remediation workflow—powered by GitHub Copilot and cross‑functional collaboration.
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Our pledge to help improve the accessibility of open source software at scale
GitHub takes the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) pledge.
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Design system annotations, part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components
How to build custom annotations for your design system components or use Figma’s Code Connect to help capture important accessibility details before development.
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Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components
The Accessibility Design team created a set of annotations to bridge the gaps that design systems alone can’t fix and proactively addresses accessibility issues within Primer components.
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Building a more accessible GitHub CLI
How do we translate web accessibility standards to command line applications? This is GitHub CLI’s journey toward making terminal experiences for all developers.
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Considerations for making a tree view component accessible
A deep dive on the work that went into making the component that powers repository and pull request file trees.
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Gaady Awards
The Gaady Awards are like the Emmy Awards for the field of digital accessibility. And, just like the Emmys, the Gaadys are a reason to celebrate! On November 21, GitHub was honored to roll out the red carpet for the accessibility community at our San Francisco headquarters.
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How to make Storybook Interactions respect user motion preferences
With this custom addon, you can ensure your workplace remains accessible to users with motion sensitivities while benefiting from Storybook’s Interactions.
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How GitHub supports neurodiverse employees (and how your company can, too)
Teams with neurodivergent employees can be up to 30 percent more productive. Discover tips on how best to support them in your workplace.
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Exploring the challenges in creating an accessible sortable list (drag-and-drop)
Drag-and-drop is a highly interactive and visual interface. We often use drag-and-drop to perform tasks like uploading files, reordering browser bookmarks, or even moving a card in solitaire.
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Scaling accessibility within GitHub and beyond
GitHub celebrates Global Accessibility Awareness Day by launching another installment of the Coding Accessibility series and sharing how we scale accessibility within GitHub and beyond.
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How we’re building more inclusive and accessible components at GitHub
We’ve made improvements to the way users of assistive technology can interact with and navigate lists of issues and pull requests and tables across GitHub.com.
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