Open Source Accessibility

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GitHub explains a four‑part accessibility strategy and names concrete deliverables: an open-sourced AI-powered accessibility scanner (github.com/githubacibility-canner), a public pledge with three goals to raise the accessibility of mainstream projects, empower disabled contributors, and grow open‑source assistive tech, plus a one‑day open‑source accessibility summit and a published roadmap (gh.io/open-source-accessibility). The talk drops surprising metrics — 70–90% of modern software is open‑source and ~51% of employers seek open‑source experience — and shows what was built and where it lives.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:08GitHub’s accessibility strategy
3. 2:37Accessibility pledge and goals
4. 4:20Mainstream project accessibility
5. 5:49Empowering disabled contributors
6. 6:31Accessibility vs assistive tech
7. 8:18Interrelated accessibility goals
8. 9:03Accessibility Summit recap

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