Looking forward to speaking at #AllThingsOpen with @helen.blog on “Continuous AI for Accessibility: Build Better, Faster, Inclusive Software with GitHub” 🚀 If you’re working on #Accessibility, #OpenSource, or inclusive #AI come say hi after our session 👋 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/con...

With just about 1 day to go, we've now scheduled the videos for all #id24 sessions. You can find the YouTube link for each session in our schedule inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/ and in the dedicated playlist for this year www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #accessibility #a11y #inclusiveDesign

This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values. If you don't want it, tell them. Social media and support forums. Leadership won't listen to employees. github.blog/changelog/20...

Your feedback matters 🙌 GitHub now remembers your tab width preferences everywhere - more choice, more flexibility, all thanks to your suggestions! Our accessibility team is always turning your feedback into real improvements. Keep sharing - we love hearing from you! 💕 github.blog/changelog/20...

ARIA! It exists and on a long enough timeline you'll need to use it. Here's how to get into the right headspace to do so! #a11y www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/what...

I love the Microsoft inclusive persona spectrum graphic for accessibility. Since bartender and cataracts don’t fit my main audience of K12 education, I adapted it and thought I would share. @edusky.bsky.social #Edusky #a11y

GitHub just launched enhanced contrast controls — now everyone can customize their theme, even when logged out 🎉 Adjust contrast on light/dark modes to reduce eye strain and boost readability. One more step toward a more inclusive GitHub experience 💪 github.blog/changelog/20...

🌈 Color in CSS: More Than Just Pretty Palettes 🎨 Yesterday, I hosted May’s @a11ytalks.com with @aubreysambor.com, who gave an excellent talk on how color impacts accessibility—covering contrast, color-contrast(), oklch(), and more! Be sure to catch the replay: youtu.be/153_6jGZjwc

Last week was heavy — celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day while saying goodbye to talented colleagues, including people on our accessibility teams. I’ve shared more thoughts and how you can help/support in my full post on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/carief...

Day 5 of our #GAAD GitHub Copilot series is here 🚀 Meet Kelly, a blind tech expert who built custom apps for retirement planning and image descriptions with help from Copilot 📊 When the tools don’t exist, Copilot helps you build them 🤖 github.com/orgs/communi...

Sitting outside enjoying a cup of coffee today when a bird decided to bless me — not once, but twice 💩🐦 They say it’s good luck when a bird poops on you…but does getting hit a second time negate that luck? 🍀🫠

Today is day 4 of our #GAAD GitHub Copilot series 🚀 Meet tech lead Chris, always looking for ways to level up his skills. Whether he’s diving into Google Cloud or breaking down APIs, he turns to GitHub Copilot to supercharge his self-guided learning 🎓

A little purr floating your way 🐈‍⬛🤍

Day 3 of the #GAAD GitHub Copilot Series 🚀 Tom, a software engineer intern with dyslexia, uses Copilot to stay in the flow. It helps him quickly grasp unfamiliar codebases with summaries and explanations — boosting his confidence and speeding up feature development 🧠✨🙌 github.com/orgs/communi...

Day 2 of our #GAAD GitHub Copilot video series 🚀 Meet @meryl.bsky.social — speaker & accessibility champ who was born deaf & relies on captions 🧏‍♀️ Note-taking during calls plus reading captions? Tricky. Thankfully she had a copilot to help her summarize the key points 🗒️ github.com/orgs/communi...

Each day this week, we’re spotlighting a new video featuring a person with lived experience using GitHub Copilot to solve real-world challenges. These stories show how AI can reduce barriers, boost productivity, and unlock creativity in coding and beyond ✨ github.com/orgs/communi...

Accessibility + Design Systems = Better Together 💡 Even great components can lead to inaccessible designs. @janmaarten.com shows how it happens — and what to watch for. 📖 Read Part 1: github.blog/engineering/...

Just dropped! Dive into “Building a More Accessible GitHub CLI” by Ryan Hecht and Andrew Feller @andyfeller.bsky.social - a must-read for command line fans and accessibility champions alike 🧑‍💻 github.blog/engineering/...

It's not too late to join the GitHub 4-week accessibility challenge leading up to Global Accessibility Day 💖 Learn about alt text, accessible linking, emoji best practices, & get feedback on your ReadMe 📗 Bonus: you can win a free T-shirt just by participating 👕 github.com/orgs/communi...

Loved getting to design a custom shirt and award as a small thank-you to the many folks — both visible and behind the scenes — who work hard every day to make GitHub more inclusive to all 💜👕✨ So glad you like the shirt @brittanyellich.com 😊

This is so good! Thanks for this write-up on choosing the right AI model for the job @cassidoo.co 🐙😸

Excited to announce I've begun the process of building out my first set of courses: 'WCAG for Designers'. If you're interested in learning how to understand and apply the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as a designer, feel free to drop a follow or sign up for updates at shellelittle.com

Do you use GitHub Copilot and have lived experience? This is your chance to share your story with others 💖 We're creating short videos showcasing how Copilot enhances workflow or daily tasks, to be featured on the GitHub accessibility community board 🚀 github.com/orgs/communi...

Thanks for sharing this work 🙌

It's not every day that MSFT's Chief Accessibility Officer Jenny Lay-Flurrie tags you in a post 😍 I’m happy to have played a small role in this, but the real credit goes to @ichelsea.bsky.social @danielfos.co + others for their reimagining of the sign-up process 🙌 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

A new guide called "Using GitHub Repositories with a Screen Reader" has just launched 🚀 This guide provides step-by-step instructions to help screen reader users navigate and interact with repos efficiently 💖 Check it out and share with your network 🤩 accessibility.github.com/documentatio...

IN ONE HOUR: “Riding the Digital Accessibility Roller Coaster: Strategies to Stay Grounded in Times of Change” with Shelby Mitchell, Senior Manager of Digital Accessibility at Discover Financial Services. Mark your calendars: March 25, 12pm ET. a11ytalks.com/posts/2025-mar #A11y #Burnout

Proud to have been part of this project, and so lucky to have worked with @ichelsea.bsky.social, our a11y designer on the team. We did it fam 🥹✨

Don't miss this fantastic article on the improved GitHub signup experience! I’m grateful to have played a small role in this, but the real credit goes to the a11y designers and devs who made it happen. Thanks for making our account creation process more inclusive 💖 annebovelett.eu/designers-yo...

As it's Friday (here at least) can all you webdevs do me a favour and make this simple code change: 1. Search for `aria-labeledby` in your codebases. 2. Change it to `aria-labelledby` (note the double L) 3. Submit a PR. 4. Congratulate yourself for your Friday contribution.

Great news – the video of the GitHub Copilot accessibility demos are now available on the Microsoft Ability Summit website 💖 Simply log in or register, then head to "Building Inclusive Experiences with GitHub Copilot with Amanda Silver" to watch/read 🚀 Event link: abilitysummit.event.microsoft.com

One of my fav #a11y shirts on the planet! Created by the amazing @cariefisher.bsky.social

It was awesome to see GitHub Copilot featured in three demos at the Microsoft Ability Summit keynote yesterday! From auto-fixing accessibility issues to AI-powered alt text and voice-activated deployment, it’s exciting to see AI making development more inclusive 🙌

HAPPENING NOW: “SUC-o-meter: A new way of measuring accessibility” with Aashutosh Kulkarni, Senior Product Designer. Join the YouTube live stream 👇 https://buff.ly/4ae9vnT #A11y #Accessibility #A11yTalks #AppAccessibility #AccessibleApps #InclusiveApps

We have more SmashingConf videos for you! 🎄✨ 🤖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=quNo... How to Use AI to Build Accessible Products — @cariefisher.bsky.social ✏️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxGr... The New Rules of UX Writing — Nick DiLallo 🔮 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiZ6... Generating the Future — @tej.as

A new free tier of GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code. ✅ 2,000 code completions per month 💬 50 chat messages per month 💫 Models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o ♥️ More fun for you Check it out today! Oh yeah, and we passed 150M developers on GitHub 💅 github.blog/news-insight...

Broken hearted and extremely anxious after the school shooting in Madison yesterday...happened way too close to home It was difficult to send my kids to school today thinking about what could happen to them 💔

I can create a complex front-end theme without breaking a sweat...but I change one line of back-end code and I feel like I deserve an award 🏆

I started this weekly series of posts and immediately got buried in work but I'll be starting it back again.

Fun fact: I don’t feel prepared for a talk until I brush my teeth, even though I already brushed my teeth and the talk is virtual 🦷🪥🤷‍♀️ Anyone else have quirky pre-talk rituals or is it just me? 😅

Light mode is an accessibility consideration, like dark mode and high contrast mode and other modes. Incidentally Spotify laid off their core accessibility team this time last year. Tech companies have laid off a lot of accessibility teams like this, in similar cutbacks to those happening for DEI.

That time when you dedicate three long days over Thanksgiving break assembling a gnarly 2,000-piece puzzle with your family...only to discover you're missing a piece 🤦‍♀️😭😂

Back in May, I began tackling the #accessibility category on the GitHub Community board — clearing out spam, answering questions, and collecting user feedback 💪 Six months and HUNDREDS of issue reviews later, it’s much cleaner! Got any feedback? I’d love to hear it ✨ github.com/orgs/communi...

Awesome idea @kevinpowell.co! Wouldn't expect anything less from a YouTube star like you lol 🌟

So glad to see so many old/faces here! Let's dust off this account and get to it 💪

Excited to share a new blog post detailing GitHub's journey in fostering accessibility through our Champions program. Learn how we empower accessibility advocates to drive positive change and gain insights for fostering accessibility in your own organization! 🙌 github.blog/2024-05-01-e...

Looking forward to presenting two talks at CSUN next week! First up, Ed Summers, Jesse Dugas, & I will be presenting "GitHub Copilot: Empowering People with Disabilities" on Friday at 11:20 am PDT in the Elite 1-3 room. www.csun.edu/cod/conferen...

The day has finally arrived! Microsoft's 14th Ability Summit is here — a day dedicated to pivotal conversations shaping the future of accessibility and disability inclusion 💕 There is still time to register for this free event, which begins at 11am ET. abilitysummit.event.microsoft.com/Signin

Excited to announce that my 4th Smashing workshop on digital accessibility kicks off this Thursday! 🙌 If you're looking to enhance your #accessibility skills and connect with fellow #a11y enthusiasts, there's still time to register 💪 smashingconf.com/online-works...

Excited to share my latest article has been published - hope you can check it out! CSS And Accessibility: Inclusion Through User Choice https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/08/css-accessibility-inclusion-user-choice