Open Source Accessibility by Ed Summers  ## Metadata - Author: [[YouTube]] - Full Title: Open Source Accessibility by Ed Summers - Category: #articles - Document Tags: [[accessibility]] [[community]] [[security]] - Summary: Open Source Accessibility by Ed Summers - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aScopuxL1Y Thank you, Jonno. And thank you, Jesse. Uh, the other thing when you get started with this on stage is remember to breathe. It always helps to breathe when coming on stage. Uh, come here buddy. This is, uh, my third scene dog. Come here, babe. Sit. Just give me a minute to get him settled. Down. Down. Down. He is uh he is wired a little differently. He has um you might have heard him bark earlier. Okay, C9 dogs are not supposed to do that. Um but he gets really wired in front of a crowd like this. You know, he's kind of like me. He feels your energy. And I was up here at 8:00 this morning bringing him on and off this stage and trying to work with getting him settled. So, he was settled down. He did a great job, didn't he? >> Thank you. Great. Give me just one second to get my notes up. Alrighty. So, at GitHub, we've been working on accessibility and making investments for about three or four years now. And uh we've made great progress and we're at an inflection point and we're starting to plan or we just finished planning the next [clears throat] three to five years and the priorities for us. So I just wanted to share just briefly our accessibility strategy at GitHub. We have four priorities now. The first two, empowering our employees and empowering people with disabilities to build a good hub. The first two um we've been making um just great progress on those. We'll continue to work on those. The next two priorities are new for us. Um, so the next one is empowering our customers, many of you to build on GitHub and meet your accessibility goals. And we just shipped here at all things open, we just shipped an open-sourced and AI powered accessibility scanner. Um, if you want to check that out, go to github.com/githubacibility-canner um, and check it out. The next or our our fourth and final uh priority is all about improving the accessibility of open source. So in May we took a pledge. We took a public pledge to help improve the accessibility of open source at scale. And we defined three goals for our pledge. Now, um the next slide, we're going to go to a poll. Typically, when we do a pledge, sorry, when we do a poll like this in a big room, Todd did it this morning. Ask people to raise their hand. Okay. Well, there's a couple problems with that from an accessibility perspective. One, I can't see your hand, so I won't be able to tell that. But also, the people up in front, they can't see the people behind them, right? So the way we do that in a multimodal accessible way is you raise your hand and say I. So let's all do it together right now. Raise your hand and say I. >> I. >> Woo. There's so many people there. That's great. Love that. All right, let's go right into our poll here. Um, this comes from the Census 2 report from the Linux Foundation. How much source code within modern software is open source? If you think about the entire stack, all the dependencies, and you lay it all out in one big file, how many lines of that source code is open source? I'm going to walk through these options, and you can raise your hand and say, "I when you find one you like." 30 to 50%. >> Got a few takers. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. 50 to 70%. >> Okay, that's more 70 to 90%. Okay, I'd say that's the majority. It turns out the majority is right in this case. 70 to 90% of modern software applications website is open-source. And that leads us to our first goal for the pledge and that's increasing the accessibility of all those mainstream projects, all those dependencies. Um we talked about this I talked about this yesterday in that wonderful talk on the third decade of open source. Um she talked about the open source supply chain and securing the open source supply chain. If if your applications dependencies open source dependencies have security v vulnerabilities your application will as well. If your if those dependencies have accessibility vulnerabilities same thing people with disabilities may not be able to use your application and enjoy your product. So, we want to help the community improve the accessibility of those mainstream applications. Let's go to the next poll. Okay, this one is how many companies look for opensource experience when they're sourcing development talent? And we'll go through the options here. 22%. >> Got a few%. >> Okay. 45%. >> Okay, these are all about even 51%. >> I think that's pretty much dead even. I don't know, but in my uh expert opinion there, the answer is 51%. 51. Think about that, y'all. By the way, that one's from the state of open over in the UK. Uh and that takes us to our second goal is to empower people with disabilities to contribute to open source. As you all know, there are so many benefits, employability and marketable skills just being one of them. But just think about the, you know, just the the feeling of empowerment when you get to build something that works. That's what got me into computer science so many years ago. We want everybody to be able to experience that. Now before we can talk about the third goal, uh we need to introduce a new term to the conversation. I'm sure all of you have heard about accessibility, but I want to tell you about assistive technology. So let's let's kind of compare contrast the two accessibility. It's a property of the things that humans build. Applications, websites, homes, buildings like this one, conferences like this one. And it's and the burden is on the builder to make that thing accessible. But assist of technology, these are tools that those of us with disabilities use to live the lives that we want to live. And I'll give you some examples. Eyeglasses are definitely assist of technology. Contact lenses, wheelchairs is a great example of an assisted technology. And in the digital realm, screen readers. I'm using the voice over screen reader right here on my iPhone to flip through my talking points and I use a free and open source screen reader uh on my Windows laptop called NDDDA. So goal number three is to increase the availability and adoption of open-source assistive technologies, many of which are free. And this matters because disability is c correlated, I'm sorry, correlated with lower economic outcomes. There are so many systemic barriers in education uh in employment. Um it can it it the employment rates are just lower for people with disabilities. So assist of technologies empower us to engage in things like open source and our communities and everything else. [clears throat] So we're really looking to empower disabled builders to build their build anything first off, but also build solutions to their access needs, share them with other people that need them, and build thriving open source communities around those solutions. So just to recap the three goals here, I want to just when you have a chance to look at them here, I just want to recap and state that they're interrelated. They can build on each other. They can feed off each other. And as we have a success in one area, it contributes to success in the other other area. And we really want to create a virtuous cycle of access and opportunity. [clears throat] Well, we took that pledge back in May and before we had even shipped the pledge and published it on the GitHub blog, we were talking with Todd and our great friends here at All Things Open about our first deliverable against that pledge. And Todd mentioned it earlier that was the open-source accessibility summit that we hosted here on Sunday. It was a full day pre-conference session. We had a huge number of registrations and we had an even bigger number of people on the wait list. Unfortunately, we had limited space, but we had a great day. The goals of the summit, we [clears throat] had three goals, but the primary goal that I want to talk talk about was to create a roadmap towards improving the accessibility of open source at scale. We made great progress towards that on Sunday. So um that roadmap and this ongoing collaborative effort through the community is available on in a GitHub or a public GitHub or we created and you can go to that org at uh just github.com/opensource accessibility separated by hyphens or the shorter is gh.io/open-source- io/open-source-accessibility. So I want to just want to leave you with one question. If you think open source should be open to everyone, please raise your hand and say hi. 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