Application Accessibility

This page provides end-user guides on how to activate, enable, or request features that improve accessibility and enhance your work experience.

Overview

The GitLab CorpSec and Enterprise Applications teams are committed to ensuring accessibility across our applications for the widest possible audience. We actively work to support all team members by enabling services and features already available within the products we use.

MacOS Features

CorpSec and Security Engineering has all of MacOS’s accessibility features enabled by default with the exception of Apple Intelligence (pending review). Here is Apple’s guide to features enabled on the Mac.

MacOS has features that support the following:

  1. Hearing - Closed captions, Screen Flast and support for assistive hearing devices

  2. Mobility - Voice Commands and shortcuts, eye tracking and use of assistive input devices and switch controls.

  3. Speech - Live Speech, Personal Voice

To enable these features, go to System Settings and select Accessibility. For any assistance, contact #it_help on Slack.

WCAG Compliant Applications

Most SaaS applications support the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) international standard as part of their application build. This allows them to seamlessly interact with MacOS and Browser capabilities, assistive devices and peripherals in make their application much accessible. The following applications are WCAG Compliant:

  1. Salesforce
  2. ServiceNow
  3. Coupa
  4. Netsuite
  5. UIPath
  6. Workato
  7. Tropic
  8. Supplier.IO

Accommodation Tools

GitLab provides a range of accessibility and accommodation tools designed to support team members and ensure an inclusive, productive work environment.

The following table lists accessibility solutions that can be requested as needed.

Solution Name Category Availability
Hearing Aids Hearing Aids Accommodation
Humanware Braile Devices Braile Device Accommodation
Humanware Magnifier Magnifier Accommodation
Be My Eyes Screen Reader Accommodation
TapTapSee Screen Reader Accommodation
Lookout By Google Screen Reader Accommodation
Seeing AI Screen Reader Accommodation
Supersense Screen Reader Accommodation
Cash Reader Screen Reader Accommodation
AccessNote Screen Reader Accommodation
Big Digital Clock Screen Reader Accommodation
Aipoly Vision Screen Reader Accommodation
My Vision Helper Screen Reader Accommodation

If you need access to any of these tools, please reach out in the #enterprise-applications Slack channel for assistance. The Enterprise Team will then coordinate with Team Member Relations team (TMR) for any accommodation-related requests.