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.
The GitHub Annotation Toolkit is an asset library packed with components to help you organize your design canvas, diagram UI anatomy, and annotate accessibility details. Whether you’re a designer, developer, or product manager, this toolkit meets you where you are—you don’t need to be an accessibility expert. It’s flexible enough to document broad accessibility considerations or dig into the fine details of complex components.
The AI-powered Accessibility Scanner (a11y scanner) is a GitHub Action that detects accessibility barriers across your digital products, creates trackable issues, and leverages GitHub Copilot for AI-powered fixes.
Custom instructions empower you to optimize accessibility by shaping how GitHub Copilot behaves within your organization or repository. Every team has unique accessibility requirements, coding standards, and development practices—custom instructions help ensure GitHub Copilot’s suggestions align with these needs.