Accessibility statements now have a home on GitHub
GitHub now highlights ACCESSIBILITY.md files and helps maintainers document accessibility goals, known barriers, supported environments, contributor expectations, and reporting processes.
Jan Maarten (he/him) is a designer and accessibility specialist living on unceded Duwamish lands. He brings two decades of experience across product design, brand, strategy, and leadership. At GitHub, he bridges design and engineering to improve accessible products, evolve design-system infrastructure, and create resources for the wider design community, including the open-source GitHub Annotation Toolkit.
GitHub now highlights ACCESSIBILITY.md files and helps maintainers document accessibility goals, known barriers, supported environments, contributor expectations, and reporting processes.