Accessibility statements highlighted on repository overview
By Steven Van ·
Repositories with an ACCESSIBILITY.md file get a dedicated tab, on all GitHub plans on github.com, with Enterprise Server 3.24 to follow.
Repositories with an ACCESSIBILITY.md file now get an Accessibility tab on the repository overview, and the page is linked from the About section. GitHub looks for the file in the .github directory, the repository root, and the docs directory, in that order.
If a repository has no accessibility page, it can inherit one from a repository named .github that the organization owns. The page can cover accessibility priorities, supported environments, known barriers, contributor expectations, the reporting process, ownership, and maintenance.
For a public repository, the Community Standards page (under Insights) now has an "Accessibility" entry with an Add or Propose button. It starts from a template whose instructions sit in comments, so they do not appear when GitHub renders the file. The file can also be created by hand.
The change is available on all GitHub plans on github.com, and will be available in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.24.
