"Commit to Change: How to Increase Accessibility in Your Favorite Open Source Projects", initially given at Posit::conf(2023) on 20 September 2023.
Presented again at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month on 24 October 2023
In order to get one of these lovely hex stickers, you need to commit to change by taking a first step to increase accessibility in an open source project. Tag me in the comments of a pull request or open issue!
- Visual Studio Code Accessibility docs
- RStudio Accessibility docs
- Jupyter Lab Accessibility Statement
- Accessibility GitHub Issue Template from Marcy Sutton
- Accessibility friendly documentation slides and resources from Carolyn Stransky
- Write The Docs collection of resources on accessibility guidelines
- Google's Accessible Documentation Style Guide
- Writing Documentation with Neurodivergent Open Source Contributors in Mind
- Watch Saqib Shaikh using a screen reader to code in Visual Studio
- Watch Mario Eiland using a screen reader to navigate a page by links
- Learn about how screen readers read special characters
- The Web Accessibility Initiative(WAI) has a great Alt Text Decision Tree which is useful for figuring out what kind of alt text you should be writing.
- WAI also has a useful Alt Text Overview Tutorial
- A Guide to Coding Accessible Developer Tools
- Accessibility of Command Line Interfaces by Sampath, Merrick, and Macvean
- GitHub's ReadME Project has many articles related to accessibility
- Read about an open source contribution that made technical documentation more accessible to blind developers
- High-level Introduction to Web Accessibility by the Web Accessibility Initiative
- Mega list of collated resources from the A11y Project