Accessibility Conformance Report for GitHub.com

Accessibility Conformance Report for GitHub.com

Report Date

This report was last updated on October 12, 2026.

Product Description

GitHub.com is the world’s largest developer platform. It empowers developers to collaborate and build scalable, secure software.

Contact Information

Please share questions or comments on the accessibility community discussion page.

Scope

The scope of this report is limited to the following user scenarios on the GitHub.com website:

User scenarios

  • Account management
  • Account management controllers
  • Actions
  • Advisory Database
  • Agent control plane
  • App authorization
  • App authorization using SAML
  • App installation
  • Artifact registry
  • Attestations
  • Audit logs
  • Billing
  • Captcha
  • Code Review
  • Code Scanning
  • Code View
  • Codespaces
  • Command palette
  • Commit comment
  • Community and safety
  • Copilot Web
  • Copilot commit messages
  • Copilot Ecosystem
  • Copilot Instructions
  • Copilot Settings
  • Copilot Spaces
  • Create a branch and commit a change
  • Create, review, and merge a pull request
  • Customer Stories
  • Customer Success Engineering UI
  • Customer Terms
  • Dependabot
  • Dependency Graph
  • Desktop
  • Discussions
  • Diversity Report
  • Email preferences center
  • Enterprise
  • Enterprise Accounts
  • Enterprise Startups
  • Enterprise Trial
  • Events
  • External Authentication
  • Features
  • Feeds
  • GitHub Blog
  • GitHub Connect
  • Homepage
  • HTML pipeline
  • Insights
  • IP allow list
  • Issues
  • Issue Dependencies
  • Join a repository
  • Lists
  • Marketplace
  • Member requests
  • Memex default workflows
  • Merge queue
  • Models
  • Moderation: blocked users
  • Move Work
  • Mona-sans
  • Notebooks
  • Notifications
  • OAuth app authorization
  • OAuth app authorization using SAML
  • Open Source
  • Organizations
  • Our Leadership
  • Package Registry
  • Pages
  • Premium Support
  • Press
  • Primer Brand
  • Procurement
  • Pull requests
  • Read and edit a file within a repo
  • Read notifications
  • ReadME Project
  • Release
  • Repository Application
  • Repository Security
  • Review and modify accessibility settings
  • Review, update, and assign issues
  • Roles and permissions
  • Search
  • Security Alerts
  • Secret Scanning
  • Security Enablement
  • Sign in
  • Sign out
  • Sign up
  • Slash commands
  • Solutions DevOps
  • Source Imports
  • Sponsors
  • Staffbar
  • Staff tools user admin and security
  • Star
  • Sub-issues
  • Teams
  • User profiles
  • Verifiable domains
  • Viewscreen
  • Webhooks
  • Wiki

Evaluation Methods Used

Scenarios were tested using:

  • Keyboard-only interactions
  • JAWS and NVDA with Google Chrome
  • axe
  • Colour Contrast Analyzer
  • Platform features such as high contrast and zoom

Applicable Standards/Guidelines

This report reflects outstanding issues found by an audit based on the level A and AA criteria of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 (WCAG 2.2 AA).

Terms

  • Supports: The functionality of the product has at least one method that meets the criterion without known defects or meets with equivalent facilitation.
  • Partially Supports: Some functionality of the product does not meet the criterion.
  • Does Not Support: The majority of product functionality does not meet the criterion.
  • Not Applicable: The criterion is not relevant to the product.
  • Not Evaluated: The product has not been evaluated against the criterion.

Priority Terms

  • High-priority issues block access to core functionality and there are no known workarounds.
  • Medium-priority issues may block users from completing non-core scenarios or cause significant delay or frustration.
  • Low-priority issues have minimal impact on users.

WCAG 2.2

Level A Success Criteria

Success Criteria Conformance Level Remarks and Explanations
1.1.1 Non-text Content

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 13 medium-priority issues
  • 3 low-priority issues
1.2.1 Audio-only and Video-only (Prerecorded)

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 1 medium-priority issue
  • 0 low-priority issues
1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded)

Supports
1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative

Supports
1.3.1 Info and Relationships

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 84 medium-priority issues
  • 401 low-priority issues
1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 11 medium-priority issues
  • 40 low-priority issues
1.3.3 Sensory Characteristics

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 5 medium-priority issues
  • 11 low-priority issues
1.4.1 Use of Color

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 10 medium-priority issues
  • 5 low-priority issues
1.4.2 Audio Control

Supports
2.1.1 Keyboard

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 14 high-priority issues
  • 15 medium-priority issues
  • 24 low-priority issues
2.1.2 No Keyboard Trap

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 1 medium-priority issue
  • 0 low-priority issues
2.1.4 Character Key Shortcuts

Supports
2.2.1 Timing Adjustable

Supports
2.2.2 Pause Stop Hide

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 3 medium-priority issues
  • 2 low-priority issues
2.3.1 Three Flashes or Below Threshold

Supports
2.4.1 Bypass Blocks

Supports
2.4.2 Page Titled

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 0 medium-priority issues
  • 1 low-priority issue
2.4.3 Focus Order

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 41 medium-priority issues
  • 142 low-priority issues
2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context)

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 12 medium-priority issues
  • 23 low-priority issues
2.5.1 Pointer Gestures

Supports
2.5.2 Pointer Cancellation

Supports
2.5.3 Label in Name

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 6 medium-priority issues
  • 11 low-priority issues
2.5.4 Motion Actuation

Supports
3.1.1 Language of Page

Supports
3.2.1 On Focus

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 2 medium-priority issues
  • 0 low-priority issues
3.2.2 On Input

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 0 medium-priority issues
  • 2 low-priority issues
3.2.6 Consistent Help

Supports
3.3.1 Error Identification

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 1 medium-priority issue
  • 0 low-priority issues
3.3.2 Labels or Instructions

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 5 medium-priority issues
  • 28 low-priority issues
3.3.7 Redundant Entry

Supports
4.1.2 Name Role Value

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 40 medium-priority issues
  • 73 low-priority issues

Level AA Success Criteria

Success Criteria Conformance Level Remarks and Explanations
1.2.4 Captions (Live)

Supports
1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded)

Supports
1.3.4 Orientation

Supports
1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose

Supports
1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum)

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 6 medium-priority issues
  • 0 low-priority issues
1.4.4 Resize text

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 2 high-priority issues
  • 9 medium-priority issues
  • 2 low-priority issues
1.4.5 Images of Text

Supports
1.4.10 Reflow

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 20 high-priority issues
  • 87 medium-priority issues
  • 148 low-priority issues
1.4.11 Non-text Contrast

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 8 medium-priority issues
  • 4 low-priority issues
1.4.12 Text-spacing

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 12 medium-priority issues
  • 21 low-priority issues
1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 2 medium-priority issues
  • 7 low-priority issues
2.4.5 Multiple Ways

Supports
2.4.6 Headings and Labels

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 5 medium-priority issues
  • 20 low-priority issues
2.4.7 Focus Visible

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 5 medium-priority issues
  • 1 low-priority issue
2.4.11 Focus Not Obscured (Minimum)

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 5 medium-priority issues
  • 0 low-priority issues
2.5.7 Dragging Movements

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 1 medium-priority issue
  • 0 low-priority issues
2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum)

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 10 medium-priority issues
  • 0 low-priority issues
3.1.2 Language of Parts

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 3 medium-priority issues
  • 0 low-priority issues
3.2.3 Consistent Navigation

Supports
3.2.4 Consistent Identification

Supports
3.3.3 Error Suggestion

Supports
3.3.4 Error Prevention (LFD)

Supports
3.3.8 Accessible Authentication (Minimum)

Supports
4.1.3 Status Messages

Partially Supports

Exceptions include:

  • 0 high-priority issues
  • 53 medium-priority issues
  • 15 low-priority issues

Disclaimer

©2026 GitHub Inc. All rights reserved. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. The information contained in this document represents the current view of GitHub Inc. on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. GitHub cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication.

GitHub’s WCAG 2.2 conformance reports provide the information included in ITI’s “VPAT® 2.5 WCAG (November 2023)” template. “Voluntary Product Accessibility Template” and “VPAT” are registered service marks of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI). This document includes material copied from or derived from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2). Copyright © 2017-2018 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio, Beihang). This document is not the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and should not be used as a substitute for it. Excerpts of WCAG are referenced solely for purposes of detailing GitHub’s conformance with the relevant provisions. A full and complete copy of the Guidelines is available from the W3C WAI.

GitHub regularly updates its websites and provides new information about the accessibility of products as that information becomes available. Customization of the product voids this conformance statement from GitHub. Customers may make independent conformance statements if they have conducted due diligence to meet all relevant requirements for their customization. Please consult with Assistive Technology (AT) vendors for compatibility specifications of specific AT products. This document is for informational purposes only. GitHub MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS DOCUMENT.

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