Arelia Jones

Over 100 million developers around the world come to GitHub to build software. Primer, GitHub’s open source design system, is responsible for creating inclusive, responsive and efficient experiences for a diverse range of users. The Primer team aims to enable all user interface (UI) components to be built leveraging Primer. At Primer’s foundation is our color system, a way of defining and applying consistent colors across the Primer UI components and themes.

Retrospectives are essential for a team’s ongoing growth and achievement, but they can be exclusionary for team members with disabilities due to the inaccessibility of most retrospective tools. These tools often depend on drag-and-drop functionality, images, color coding, and undefined digital spaces with no clear headings or navigational anchors. To ensure everyone can actively participate, the GitHub Accessibility leadership team uses tools and processes that fully engage every team member.

GitHub is the home for all developers, a place where we come together to learn, collaborate, and ship code. At GitHub Education, our goal is to welcome students and teachers into that home and provide them with the skills and leading industry tools to complete their academic journey, from classroom engagement to career readiness. We believe every student and teacher deserves the same access to our offerings.