About Community Access

We are a community of blind and sighted developers building open source tools that make AI-generated code accessible by default.

Our Mission

AI coding tools generate code fast, but they forget accessibility. Missing alt text, broken heading hierarchies, unusable keyboard navigation, and incorrect ARIA attributes ship into production every day because the AI was never taught to care.

Community Access fixes this at the source. Our 55 specialized agents run inside your AI coding environment and enforce WCAG 2.2 AA compliance on every prompt, every response, and every code suggestion before it reaches your editor.

We believe accessibility is not an afterthought or a feature request. It is a baseline requirement. Every line of code should ship inclusive.

What We Value

Nothing About Us Without Us

Built by and for the blind and low-vision community. Every agent understands real-world assistive technology because our contributors use it every day.

Open Source, Always

Everything we build is MIT-licensed, free to use, modify, and distribute. Accessibility knowledge should never be locked behind a paywall.

Prevention Over Remediation

Catching accessibility issues before code is written is orders of magnitude cheaper than fixing them after deployment. Our agents intervene at the point of generation.

Real-World Testing

Spec compliance is necessary but not sufficient. We test with NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, and keyboard-only navigation because that is what real users depend on.

The Project

Community Access provides 55 AI agents, 17 knowledge skills, and 54 pre-built prompts across five platforms: Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI. The agents cover web accessibility, document scanning (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, EPUB, Markdown), GitHub workflows, and desktop application development.

Installation takes 30 seconds with a single command. The agents are additive and never overwrite existing files. Get started here.

The project is hosted on GitHub at github.com/Community-Access. Contributions are welcome from everyone. Read our contributing guide.

Founders & Maintainers

Community Access is founded and maintained by two developers dedicated to making AI-generated code accessible by default.

Jeff Bishop (opens in new tab)

Co-founder and maintainer. Blind developer and accessibility advocate building tools that bridge the gap between AI code generation and real-world assistive technology.

Taylor Arndt (opens in new tab)

Co-founder and maintainer. Developer and educator driving the project's workshops, community engagement, and accessible tooling.

Contributors

Community Access is built by real people who care about digital accessibility and inclusion. These contributors have shaped what we are building across every repo in the organization. Thank you for your partnership, mentorship, and empathy. Go team!

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Special Thanks

A special thanks to everyone who has opened issues, reported bugs, requested features, and shaped our direction. Every voice matters.

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Community Pillars

These people have truly shaped what it means to engage with the blind and low-vision community. Thank you for your partnership, mentorship, and empathy centered around digital accessibility and inclusion.

AI and automated tools are not perfect. They miss things, make mistakes, and cannot replace testing with real screen readers and assistive technology. Always verify with VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS, and keyboard-only navigation.