How we’re building more inclusive and accessible components at GitHub
We’ve made improvements to the way users of assistive technology can interact with and navigate lists of issues and pull requests and tables across GitHub.com.
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Our designers, developers, and accessibility teams all work together to build front end experiences that are inclusive, accessible, and intuitive to navigate.
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Exploring developer happiness, inclusion, and productivity at GitHub’s Design Conference
As a design organization, we have the opportunity to make a significant impact on designing the platform for all developers. How does the emergence of creative AI impact our work? How can we achieve an inclusive experience for a spectrum of all abilities? What does designing for developer happiness look like?
Accessibility considerations behind code search and code view
A look at how we improved the readability of code on GitHub.
Design’s journey towards accessibility
Design can have a significant impact on delivering accessible experiences to our users. It takes a cultural shift, dedicated experts, and permission to make progress over perfection in order to build momentum. We’ve got a long way to go, but we’re starting to see a real shift in our journey to make GitHub a true home for all developers.
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Unlocking inclusive design: how Primer’s color system is making GitHub.com more inclusive
How Primer’s updated light and dark theme color contrast strategy resolved hundreds of color-contrast-related accessibility issues over one thousand use cases.
Creating an accessible search experience with the QueryBuilder component
GitHub’s search inputs have several complex accessibility considerations. Let’s dive into what those are, how we addressed them, and talk about the standalone, reusable component that was ultimately built.
How we’re continuing to enable all developers to build
Learn about what GitHub is doing to make their products more inclusive, and what’s next.
How we illustrate at GitHub
In the fourth installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage, we’ll explore the artistic pipeline at GitHub to explain story, character and color, and to show how…
Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant
This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
Using Figma designs to build the Octicons icon library
How we use Figma files to keep the Octicons icon library up to date
Topic Suggestions for Millions of Repositories
We recently launched Topics, a new feature that lets you tag your repositories with descriptive words or phrases, making it easy to discover projects and explore GitHub.com. Topic suggestions on…
A formal spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown
We’re releasing a formal specification of the syntax for GitHub Flavored Markdown, and its corresponding reference implementation.
LIKE injection
Looking through our exception tracker the other day, I ran across a notice from our slow-query logger that caught my eye. I saw a SELECT … WHERE … LIKE query…
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