This repository is the shared home for the Open Source Accessibility community's summit materials, discussion outcomes, and practical work to make open source software more accessible. It brings together people from the disability, accessibility, and open source communities to identify barriers, share knowledge, and turn ideas into community action.
The Open Source Accessibility Summit represented a significant milestone in our collective journey toward making open source software accessible to all users. The success of this initiative depends on sustained community engagement beyond the summit. We invite you to:
- Join the conversation in dedicated channels in the Open Source Accessibility Slack
- Contribute to the open source accessibility roadmap to advance roadmap items (open issues, submit pull requests, write docs) in the Open Source Accessibility Organization
- Spread awareness by sharing the roadmap from the Open Source Accessibility repo with your networks
The Open Source Accessibility Summit will be a one-day in-person event that brings together members of the disability, accessibility, and open source communities to collaborate on practical ways to improve the accessibility of open source software. It will be an interactive event where participants learn, contribute, and work together on real accessibility challenges in open source projects.
Goals of the summit are to:
- Make connections between people who have a shared interest in improving the accessibility of open source software.
- Share knowledge and practical skills for identifying accessibility issues, contributing fixes, and supporting more inclusive open source projects.
- Create opportunities for participants to work on real accessibility improvements through guided issue writing, small pull requests, and collaborative hackathon-style projects.
Register for the Open Source Accessibility Summit - 2026 happening on October 19, 2026 in Raleigh, NC.
Learn more details about the event.
Review what came out of the inaugural Open Source Accessibility Summit (2025) on Oct 12, 2025.