GitHub tools and resources

What we use to make GitHub accessible.

Annotation Toolkit

The GitHub Annotation Toolkit is a Figma asset library packed with components to help you organize your design canvas, diagram UI anatomy, and annotate accessibility details for web and mobile experiences.

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Checklists

Design Checkpoints and Engineering Checkpoints lists overlapping one another.

Easy to use tools for designers and engineers to help ensure a design’s color, hierarchy, content, images, interactivity, forms, layout, and keyboard operability are accessible for all users.

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Accessibility Scanner

An AI-powered action that finds potential accessibility gaps, files issues, and attempts to fix them with Copilot.

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Alt Text Bot for GitHub

A GitHub Action to remind users to add alt text on Issues, Pull Requests, and Discussions.

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Alt Text Bot for Slack

Encourage accessible image sharing with alt text reminders in your Slack workspace.

Add to Slack workspace

GitHub CLI Primer Design

A collection of principles, foundations and usage guidelines for designing GitHub command line products.

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GitHub a11y checker

A browser extension that encourages accessibility awareness of headings and images while using GitHub.

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Other external tools

A selection of tools to help designers and engineers check for accessibility in product development.

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