GitHub Copilot and accessibility

A collection of useful links when thinking about AI and accessibility. These resources are aligned with a recent presentation on this topic.

Getting a license for GitHub Copilot

• General public pricing
• Microsoft internal sign-up

Research related to GitHub Copilot

• Quantifying GitHub Copilot's impact on developer productivity and happiness
• More useful numbers about code acceptance rates: GitHub Copilot for Business is now available

Inclusion

• Disability dongles
• Facial Analysis Technology: Do Recruiters Really Need It?
• The WebAIM Million

Frameworks for asking good questions

• Opportunities and Challenges of AI for Accessibility - Cynthia Bennett and Shari Trewin
• HAX Toolkit Hands-on tools for AI builders to create effective and responsible human-AI experiences
• Microsoft Responsible AI Impact Assessment Template
• Microsoft Responsible AI resources

Demo videos

• GitHub Copilot: Getting Started with Chat
• GitHub Copilot: Using Voice to Code

Copilot vs. Autopilot

Responsible AI pair programming with GitHub Copilot.

This is not specific to accessibility but most, if not all the concepts are transferable to accessibility.

Other articles and presentations worth reading

• Setting expectations for asking ChatGPT web accessibility questions
• Having an AI dialog
• AI? Artificial Intelligence? Accessible Intelligence!