ACCESSIBILITY.md: An open standard for project accessibility transparency and AI-assisted inclusion
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Summary
This article introduces ACCESSIBILITY.md, an open standard format for documenting and governing project accessibility (a11y). Modeled after SECURITY.md, it provides a human and machine-readable manifest that tracks a project's commitment to accessibility through metrics, guardrails, and automated enforcement. The format aligns with AGENTS.md for guiding coding agents to be more accessible, and includes a companion repository for Claude Skills integration. The project aims to make accessibility transparency a standard practice in open source development.
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It is a human and machine-readable manifest that tracks a project's commitment to accessibility (a11y) through metrics, guardrails, and automated enforcement.
ACCESSIBILITY.md — a simple, open format (aligned with AGENTS.md) for guiding coding agents to be more accessible
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