Accessibility Community Check-In

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Hey folks, reporting in for our March Accessibility Community Check-In ✅

❓What is the Accessibility Category All About?

The Accessibility category is a place for our community to discuss and provide feedback on the digital accessibility of GitHub products. Digital accessibility means that GitHub tools 🔧 and technologies, are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them.

This is in line with GitHub’s mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration and the belief that people with disabilities should benefit from and be able to contribute to the creation of that progress.

• Click here to learn more about GitHub’s commitment to Digital Accessibility here.
• Interested in contributing? Check out our Welcome to Accessibility Feedback Category.

👏 Accessibility Updates

Updates in the Accessibility Space Here at GitHub

• Accessibility improvements were made to the contribution graph 👀 📈
  • The contribution graph now supports keyboard interaction and compatibility with assistive technologies. Users can navigate the graph and filter contributions using the keyboard. While navigating the graph, a summary of each day is displayed visually in a tooltip and announced by screen readers.

💡Inspiration Station

Fresh content to give you new ideas!

• GitHub, accessibility, and the disability divide - Written by our very own Head of Accessibility, @edsummersnc: “Here’s the TL;DR: the prime directive of the GitHub accessibility program is to empower people with disabilities to build cool technology.”

🏗️ New to open source?

Here are some resources to help you get started:

• Have you checked out GitHub’s Web Accessibility Collection? There you can find a list of open source tools to help you design and develop web projects with accessibility in mind.
• Here’s how to find projects that need help so you can start making impactful contributions today 👷
• Heard of the A11y Project yet? - The A11Y Project is a community-driven effort to make digital accessibility easier.
• Are you or do you know a college student interested in open source? All In for Students is an online program for college students from underrepresented backgrounds that provides open source education, training, and internship opportunities. They’re doing really cool things, check it out!

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Thank you for your participation. That’s it for this month’s check-in but not the end of the conversation! Continue to join the discussion and we’ll see you in the next Accessibility check-in. 👋