Empowering People with Disabilities Using GitHub Copilot
summary
GitHub Copilot and Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code generate contextual code completions, inline explanations and runnable snippets while supporting screen readers via NVDA speech output and keyboard-only navigation. Demos show an accessible tic‑tac‑toe built in a few hours and a Chrome readability extension prototyped in about one hour, plus prompt engineering turning a bare HTML table into a WAI‑ARIA‑referenced accessible data table. Copilot can produce useful, testable accessibility fixes but it hallucinates and requires humans in the loop and real user testing.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to speakers
- 1:47What is GitHub Copilot
- 7:29Accessibility of Copilot interface
- 13:32Screen reader support demo
- 18:31Keyboard accessibility demo
- 23:23AI pitfalls and human oversight
- 26:39Prompt engineering for accessibility
- 32:59Using Copilot to improve accessibility
- 37:32Summary and closing remarks
- 38:15Q&A session
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