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Description: Practical, actionable steps to make your open source project usable by everyone, especially people with disabilities.

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Links:

Open Source Guideshttps://opensource.guide/
About https://github.com/github/opensource.guide#readme
Contribute https://github.com/github/opensource.guide/blob/HEAD/CONTRIBUTING.md
Partner with people with disabilitieshttps://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/#partner-with-people-with-disabilities
Start with an accessibility statementhttps://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/#start-with-an-accessibility-statement
Make docs accessible by defaulthttps://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/#make-docs-accessible-by-default
Design accessible interfaceshttps://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/#design-accessible-interfaces
Make tools accessiblehttps://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/#make-tools-accessible
Build accessibility into contribution workflowshttps://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/#build-accessibility-into-contribution-workflows
Test accessibility continuouslyhttps://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/#test-accessibility-continuously
Start with small wins this weekhttps://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/#start-with-small-wins-this-week
Conclusion: A few steps for you, a huge improvement for your usershttps://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/#conclusion-a-few-steps-for-you-a-huge-improvement-for-your-users
Contributorshttps://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/#contributors
World Health Organizationhttps://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/disability-and-health
W3C’s Developing an Accessibility Statementhttps://www.w3.org/WAI/planning/statements/
ACCESSIBILITY.md examplehttps://github.com/open-source-accessibility/accessibility-toolkit/blob/main/ACCESSIBILITY.md
WCAG AAhttps://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#wcag-2-layers-of-guidance
Axe DevToolshttps://www.deque.com/axe/devtools/extension/#:~:text=Try%20Axe%20DevTools%20Extension%20in%20your%20browser%20of%20choice
Use real listshttps://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax#lists
W3C’s alt Decision Treehttps://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decision-tree/
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) documentationhttps://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/
WebAIM’s Contrast Checkerhttps://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
accessibility issue template examplehttps://github.com/open-source-accessibility/accessibility-toolkit/blob/main/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/accessibility.yml
PR template examplehttps://github.com/open-source-accessibility/accessibility-toolkit/blob/main/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
axe-corehttps://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core
Getting Started with GitHub Copilot Custom Agents for Accessibility Guidehttps://accessibility.github.com/documentation/guide/getting-started-with-agents/
Optimizing GitHub Copilot for Accessibility with Custom Instructions Guidehttps://accessibility.github.com/documentation/guide/copilot-instructions/
GitHub Accessibility Scannerhttps://github.com/github/accessibility-scanner
roles/nameshttps://www.w3.org/TR/accname-1.2/
VoiceOverhttps://support.apple.com/guide/voiceover/welcome/mac
NVDAhttps://www.nvaccess.org/about-nvda/
JAWShttps://vispero.com/jaws-screen-reader-software/
smoke testhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_testing_(software)
ACCESSIBILITY.md examplehttps://github.com/open-source-accessibility/accessibility-toolkit/blob/main/ACCESSIBILITY.md
accessibility issue template examplehttps://github.com/open-source-accessibility/accessibility-toolkit/blob/main/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/accessibility.yml
PR template examplehttps://github.com/open-source-accessibility/accessibility-toolkit/blob/main/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
project for additional exampleshttps://github.com/mgifford/ACCESSIBILITY.md/tree/main
@mlama007https://github.com/mlama007
@ericwbaileyhttps://github.com/ericwbailey
@andyfellerhttps://github.com/andyfeller
@mgiffordhttps://github.com/mgifford
@smocklehttps://github.com/smockle
@weboverhaulshttps://github.com/weboverhauls
Back to all guides https://opensource.guide/
Contribute https://github.com/github/opensource.guide/blob/main/_articles/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project.md
fine printhttps://opensource.guide/notices/
friendshttps://github.com/github/opensource.guide/graphs/contributors

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