accessibility

With this custom addon, you can ensure your workplace remains accessible to users with motion sensitivities while benefiting from Storybook’s Interactions. The post How to make Storybook Interactions respect user motion preferences appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Teams with neurodivergent employees can be up to 30 percent more productive. Discover tips on how best to support them in your workplace. The post How GitHub supports neurodiverse employees (and how your company can, too) appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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. The post Exploring the challenges in creating an accessible sortable list (drag-and-drop) appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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. The post Scaling accessibility within GitHub and beyond appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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. The post How we’re building more inclusive and accessible components at GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

A11y Design Bootcamp is a live educational program that consists of exercises, discussions, and knowledge shares to raise awareness of web accessibility best practices, the role designers play in creating accessible products, and how to advocate for accessibility with cross-functional partners. The post Celebrating 1 year of A11y Design Bootcamp: Takeaways and tips appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

As part of GitHub's dedication to accessibility, we expanded our internal accessibility program and scaled up our assessment process to help remove or lower barriers for users with disabilities. Then, we empowered employees from various disciplines to drive accessibility efforts within their teams. The post Empowering accessibility: GitHub’s journey building an in-house Champions program appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

GitHub has been awarded the 2024 Axe Accessibility at Scale Award from Deque Systems. Read more about how we’ve implemented accessibility at scale. The post Empowering all developers to build without barriers appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

The Fundamentals program has helped us address tech debt, improve reliability, and enhance observability of our engineering systems. The post GitHub’s Engineering Fundamentals program: How we deliver on availability, security, and accessibility appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

GitHub Universe 2023 is just around the corner! Join us and learn how GitHub is leveraging AI to empower all developers, including developers with disabilities. The post Leveraging AI to empower all developers at GitHub Universe 2023 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Your profile’s README invites the world to know you and your work, so it’s important that everyone can read and understand it. In this post, we share some tips for making your README more accessible. The post 5 tips for making your GitHub profile page accessible appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

GitHub Copilot Chat can help you learn about accessibility and improve the accessibility of your code. In this blog, we share a sample foundational prompt that instructs GitHub Copilot Chat to become your personal AI assistant for accessibility. The post Prompting GitHub Copilot Chat to become your personal AI assistant for accessibility appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

As a design organization, we have the opportunity to make a significant impact on designing the platform for all developers. How does the emergence of creative AI impact our work? How can we achieve an inclusive experience for a spectrum of all abilities? What does designing for developer happiness look like?

A look at how we improved the readability of code on GitHub.

GitHub’s redesigned navigation is enabled for all users as a public beta.

The accessibility-alt-text-bot leaves automated reminders in a comment when a user shares an image without providing meaningful alt text.

GitHub is the home for all developers and on this Global Accessibility Awareness Day we are thrilled to celebrate the achievements of disabled developers and recent ships that help them build on GitHub.

Design can have a significant impact on delivering accessible experiences to our users. It takes a cultural shift, dedicated experts, and permission to make progress over perfection in order to build momentum. We’ve got a long way to go, but we’re starting to see a real shift in our journey to make GitHub a true home for all developers.