Carie Fisher is an experienced leader with a strong focus on front-end development, user experience, and digital accessibility with over 15 years of technical expertise. Currently she works at GitHub as a Senior Program Manager while also pursuing a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction at Iowa State University. Carie’s recent collaboration with Google’s web.dev team led to the development of the evergreen accessibility course, Learn Accessibility, highlighting her dedicated efforts to advance inclusive digital experiences for all.
GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer and the world’s most widely adopted AI programming tool. Individual developers and organizations use it to code faster, focus on business logic over boilerplate, and do what matters most: building great software. GitHub Copilot plugs right into several popular editors including Visual Studio Code. It turns natural language prompts into code, offers multi-line function suggestions, speeds up test generation, and much more. During this session, members of the GitHub accessibility team will explore GitHub Copilot from two perspectives. First, we will demonstrate accessibility features that empower developers with disabilities to use GitHub Copilot to boost their productivity using AI. Then, we will explore techniques that enable all developers to improve the accessibility of their code.
for free. You
can too.
