Considerations for making a tree view component accessible
February 4, 2025
Tree views are notoriously difficult to implement in an accessible way. This post is a deep dive into some of the major considerations that went into how we made GitHub’s tree view component accessible. We hope that it can be used as a reference and help others.
Source: Considerations for making a tree view component accessible – The GitHub Blog
In the tradition of Adem Cifcioglu’s wonderful talks on accessible auto-suggest (from Code 2024 and Respond 2017), this article dives deeply into the challenges in making the common tree view control accessible.