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Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion

The GitHub Blog·@CarieFisher·2 months ago
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For years, accessibility feedback at GitHub didn’t have a clear place to go. Unlike typical product feedback, accessibility issues don’t belong to any single team—they cut across the entire ecosystem. For example, a screen reader user might report a broken workflow that touches navigation, authentication, and settings. A keyboard-only user might hit a trap in a shared component used across dozens of pages. A low vision user might flag a color contrast issue that affects every surface using a shared design element. No single team owns any of these problems—but every one of them blocks a real person. These reports require coordination that our existing processes weren’t originally built for. Feedback was often scattered across backlogs, bugs lingered without owners, and users followed up to silence. Improvements were often promised for a mythical “phase two” that rarely materialized. We knew we needed to change this.…

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