GitHub Accessibility
At GitHub, our mission is to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration. The mission of our accessibility program is to enable ~1.3 billion people with disabilities to benefit from and contribute to the creation of that progress. As we pursue that mission, we focus on strategic priorities that empower our employees with disabilities, developers with disabilities, customers that are building on GitHub, and the open source community.
Empower Hubbers with disabilities to do the best work of their lives
We know that companies that embrace best practices for employing and supporting employees with disabilities outperform their peers. So, our commitment to accessibility starts at home.
All employees are required to complete training that teaches the basics of accessibility. We continuously improve the accessibility of our tools and systems by integrating accessibility into our procurement processes. We also provide guides that help all employees create accessible communications, events, meetings, and more.
Our NeuroCats Community of Belonging supports and improves the lives of neurodiverse people through action and education while our AccessCats Affinity Group advocates for equal access for people with disabilities within GitHub and beyond.
More information:
- Learn how GitHub supports neurodiverse employees
- Learn about global diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub
Empower developers with disabilities to build on GitHub
As the home for all developers, we want every developer to feel welcome in our community and contribute to the future of global software development with everything GitHub has to offer including products, documentation, training, support, events, social media content, and more.
Accessibility is a GitHub Fundamental. We drive excellence in accessibility by clearly defining expectations, continuously testing against those expectations, and ensuring accountability with our GitHub Fundamentals scorecards.
Our Primer Design System provides a strong foundation for accessibility. It includes accessible components, primitives, and patterns that enable product teams to include accessibility by default.
We integrate accessibility throughout the development process by performing inclusive user research, annotating designs using our Figma annotation toolkit, maintaining a strong network of accessibility champions, and embedding accessibility designers within product development teams.
We evaluate the accessibility of new features when they become Generally Available. If we inadvertently ship new features with accessibility barriers and they are reported by a user, resolving any high-impact barriers becomes the top priority for our program.
More information:
- Learn about GitHub accessibility features and settings
- Learn how to use GitHub with a screen reader
- Provide feedback on the accessibility of our products
- View our Accessibility Conformance Reports
Empower our customers to meet their accessibility goals on GitHub
We’re eager to help our customers meet their accessibility goals when they build on GitHub. We do that by using the latest GitHub features to run our accessibility program, leveraging AI and automation, sharing our best practices externally, and open-sourcing our tools when possible.
We created a Figma annotation toolkit to help any designers design with accessibility in mind and communicate their intent clearly to developers. We open-sourced it so anyone can adapt it to meet their needs.
We re-factored our internal automated testing solution into an AI-powered accessibility scanner that enables customers to find, file, and fix accessibility bugs using GitHub Copilot coding agent. Customers can use the scanner in the GitHub Marketplace or fork the open-source repository to adapt the scanner to their unique DevOps process.
More information:
- Get started with our annotation toolkit for Figma
- Get started with our AI-powered accessibility scanner
- Learn how to optimize GitHub Copilot for accessibility using custom instructions
- Join the GitHub Enterprise Accessibility Advisory Panel
Help improve the accessibility of open source at scale
Open source software powers much of the world’s technology, yet many projects are not designed to be usable by people with disabilities. In 2025, we took a pledge to help change that state of affairs.
Our first step was to host the Open Source Accessibility Summit. That interactive event brought together experts from the domains of accessibility, disability, and open source to draft a roadmap for accelerating the accessibility of open source. Going forward, we’ll coordinate community-driven systemic change within the open-source-accessibility organization on GitHub.
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