With Hacktoberfest just around the corner I started thinking about what I would like to contribute this year (both in October and going forward).
Over the course of the year I've been doing my best to be an advocate for accessibility in web applications, and so I thought a natural thing to do would be to help improve accessibility in Open Source, one Pull Request at a time!
Would you like to join me?
I've added a page over at Up Your A11y: Open A11y OSS Issues Looking for Help to help identify issues actively looking for contributors.
You'll find open GitHub issues that:
- Are from open source projects
- Reference 'a11y', 'accessibility', or 'accessible'
- Have the "Help wanted" or "Good first issue" label
- Have no assignee or pull request yet
- Are for JavaScript or HTML projects
Have a great Hacktoberfest
Whatever you end up doing this year and beyond in OSS, happy coding! 👩💻👨💻
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Top comments (14)
Thanks this is a great idea! I was just thinking about what I wanted to work on this year for Hacktoberfest 🤔👌
Yay! Glad I could help 🙂
Thanks I’m pretty excited about another round of Hacktoberfest. Also happy to help fix a11y issues one PR at a time
Great Idea. But this is my first time contributing to open source so don't know much about the procedures. Would love to try though! :)
I've found this article by Sarah Drasner really good at breaking down the process if it's your first time - How to contribute to an Open Source Project
At the end of the day, giving it all a go is the whole ethos behind Hacktoberfest, so don't worry! Plus, everyone on Dev is so supportive, you can always post questions 🙂
Cool. I'll check out that article. Kudos to all. :)
Great! I'm interested in bettering my understanding of accessibility so I will definitely check this out.
I'm in! I have to get pretty good at a11y for the project that I'm currently working for so this can come as a great practice.
Awesome!
Hi Suzanne! I discovered upyoura11y.com through this post and I wanted to say thank you for creating it. It's the resource I always wanted!
That makes me so happy! I'm hoping to post some more tutorials in there soon 😁
Good idea, Suzanne! I bet a lot of people will appreciate this.
Thanks! It's something I was looking for myself, so thought maybe someone else might be interested too 🤷♀️
I wouldn't be of much help, but wanted throw this out there. Could ajax tabs use the role log stuff to make more accessible?