Maintaining & Sustaining Software Intermediate 15m

Accessibility Best Practices for Your Project

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

Learning outcomes

  • Partner with people with disabilities to improve project accessibility
  • Write an accessibility statement for a project
  • Apply accessible documentation and interface design practices
  • Build accessibility testing into contribution workflows

Prerequisites

GitHub, Open source basics

Cite this lesson

APA

GitHub (2026). Accessibility Best Practices for Your Project. UC OSPO Network. https://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/

BibTeX
@misc{accessibility_best_practices_for_your_project_2026,
  author    = {{GitHub}},
  title     = {Accessibility Best Practices for Your Project},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {UC OSPO Network},
  url       = {https://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/}
}