I'm thrilled to announce the Open Source Assistive Technology Hackathon! Join us on May 21–22 at the GitHub headquarters in San Francisco (SF) to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Join us for this free, 2-day, in-person event focused on empowering participants to build skills and make real contributions to the assistive technology (AT) tools people rely on every day. New to open source or GitHub? Join us for the GitHub Learning room to learn about core GitHub contribution workflows and practice navigating repositories, issues, pull requests, and code reviews with confidence. This workshop led by Jeffrey Bishop will also cover NVDA and keyboard-only navigation! Ready to contribute? Join us to contribute to one of our featured open source AT projects! We will have maintainers and collaborators available to help. Featured project: NVDA - you’ll also have a special opportunity to collaborate with members of the NVDA team, who will join remotely to help you get set up, answer questions, and review contributions to NVDA. We’re seeking additional projects. If you maintain (or contribute to) an AT project and would like your project to be part of the hackathon - whether it needs docs improvements, triage support, testing, or small starter issues - please reach out to me. Got a new idea you want to work on? Bring it and work on it with accessibility and technology experts! No need for technical skills! Sign up using the event form: https://lnkd.in/eGcxVRt9 #OpenSource #Accessibility #GAAD
This is great. Looking forward to hearing what comes from it.
Open source assistive tech hackathons are one of the best ways to turn empathy into real, reusable impact. When solutions are built in the open with accessibility baked into design, documentation, and testing, they become easier to adopt, improve, and sustain long after the event. This is the kind of collaboration that moves inclusion from intention to practical outcomes.
Aaron Farber
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I'm in. See you there.
it’s a great opportunity.
Sarah Lewis this FEELS like it might be right up your alley!
This sounds incredible! Will there be any hybrid components or ways for those of us outside of SF to contribute to the featured projects during the event?