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Design system annotations, part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components

Jan Maarten — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:56:57 +0000

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

Jan Maarten — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:56:41 +0000

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

Ryan Hecht — Fri, 02 May 2025 14:30:00 +0000

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

Eric Bailey — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:00:39 +0000

A deep dive on the work that went into making the component that powers repository and pull request file trees.

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How to make Storybook Interactions respect user motion preferences

Kendall Gassner — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:00:51 +0000

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)

Lou Nelson — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:00:48 +0000

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)

Kendall Gassner — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:06:50 +0000

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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How we’re building more inclusive and accessible components at GitHub

Eric Bailey — Tue, 07 May 2024 17:00:20 +0000

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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Empowering accessibility: GitHub’s journey building an in-house Champions program

Carie Fisher — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:00:13 +0000

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.

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GitHub’s Engineering Fundamentals program: How we deliver on availability, security, and accessibility

Deepthi Rao Coppisetty — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 17:15:55 +0000

The Fundamentals program has helped us address tech debt, improve reliability, and enhance observability of our engineering systems.

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Prompting GitHub Copilot Chat to become your personal AI assistant for accessibility

Ed Summers — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 16:00:05 +0000

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.

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Accessibility considerations behind code search and code view

milemons — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:00:51 +0000

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

GitHub celebrates developers with disabilities on Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Ed Summers — Thu, 18 May 2023 13:00:09 +0000

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.

Creating an accessible search experience with the QueryBuilder component

Lindsey Wild — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:08:24 +0000

GitHub’s search inputs have several complex accessibility considerations. Let’s dive into what those are, how we addressed them, and talk about the standalone, reusable component that was ultimately built.

Project A11Y: how we upgraded Cloudflare’s dashboard to adhere to industry accessibility standards

Emily Flannery — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000

At Cloudflare, we believe the Internet should be accessible to everyone. And today, we’re happy to announce a more inclusive Cloudflare dashboard experience: adherence to the industry accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.1 AA and section 508 compliance.

More devices, fewer CAPTCHAs, happier users

Wesley Evans — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:00:09 +0000

Today, we are taking another step in helping to reduce the Internet’s reliance on CAPTCHAs to prove that you are not a robot. We are expanding the reach of our Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood experiment by adding support for a much wider range of devices.

New Raspberry Pi OS release — December 2020

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 10:54:34 +0000

Well, in a year as disrupted and strange as 2020, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can rely on, for example the traditional end-of-year new release of Raspberry Pi OS, which we launch today. Here’s a run-through of the main new features that you’ll find in it. Chromium We’ve updated the…

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