Context: People with Disabilities (PwD) have seen the software development market as an alternative for overcoming some of the inclusion barriers they face in society. Especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, when software development workforce demand grew to meet the increased need for digital products, this career presents itself as an opportunity for dignified and equal employment conditions. However, there is limited software engineering research about the PwD’s effective inclusion in software development teams. Objectives and Methods: This paper presents the emerging results from a systematic literature review on three Computer Science databases over the last decade (2013-2023). Our objective was to identify relevant technical and human aspects of PwD’s effective inclusion in software development teams. Results: From 1.006 initial papers, 39 were selected because they discuss PwDs as members of software development teams. We analyzed them with quantitative and qualitative approaches. Our results indicate that the inclusion of PwDs as members of software development teams is a topic underexplored in software engineering research with 11 papers out of the 39 discuss this topic. In addition, visual impairment is the most addressed disability, while programming is the most common role played by these professionals in software development teams. The challenges PwDs face are usually technical and social, such as the accessibility of tools and mixed-ability teams’ work dynamics. We conclude presenting the PwDs’ workarounds to deal with these challenges. These workarounds are not only common but essential to guarantee minimally equal participation. Conclusion: Our contribution is to outline the research trajectory about the inclusion of PwDs as software developers over the past decade and steer new efforts towards their effective integration into software development teams.