Accessibility statements now have a home on GitHub
The GitHub Blog · 软件开发
Accessibility work often lives in issue trackers, contribution guidelines, audit reports, team knowledge, and conversations with users. When that information has no predictable home, people who encounter a barrier must search for it, and maintainers lose context as contributors and project ownership change. An ACCESSIBILITY.md file, now visible on repository overview pages, gives a project one durable place to explain its accessibility goals, contributor expectations, supported environments, known limitations, and process for reporting barriers. GitHub makes accessibility statements easier to find GitHub now recognizes the ACCESSIBILITY.md file in the repository’s root, .github/ directory, or docs/ directory. A repository can also inherit a statement from its organization’s .github/ repository. For public repositories, maintainers can add or propose a statement from Insights > Community Standards using a concise starter document. GitHub’s community health files help people understand how a project works: Contribution guidelines explain how to propose changes Codes of conduct establish expectations for participation Security policies explain how to report vulnerabilities Recognizing ACCESSIBILITY.md gives accessibility information a dedicated place alongside that guidance. New repositories also include an accessibility issue label by default. The statement explains how to report a barrier and what to expect next, while the label helps maintainers organize and track the resulting work. Accessibility statements make project practices visible GitHub CLI’s accessibility statement , for example, documents settings, known barriers, and workarounds. It explains why table output can be difficult to follow with a screen reader and provides a command that prints pull request numbers and titles one per line instead. It also asks contributors changing prompts or output to show the results with relevant accessibility settings enabled. Developers using the CLI get a specific worka