diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 137956e06c1..dd492f289d6 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
     "eslint-loader": "1.6.3",
     "eslint-plugin-flowtype": "2.21.0",
     "eslint-plugin-import": "2.0.1",
-    "eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y": "2.2.3",
+    "eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y": "4.0.0",
     "eslint-plugin-react": "6.4.1",
     "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "2.0.0",
     "file-loader": "0.10.0",
diff --git a/template/README.md b/template/README.md
index 5e527811f08..8454fd983ea 100644
--- a/template/README.md
+++ b/template/README.md
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ Then add this block to the `package.json` file of your project:
 Finally, you will need to install some packages *globally*:
 
 ```sh
-npm install -g eslint-config-react-app@0.3.0 eslint@3.8.1 babel-eslint@7.0.0 eslint-plugin-react@6.4.1 eslint-plugin-import@2.0.1 eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y@2.2.3 eslint-plugin-flowtype@2.21.0
+npm install -g eslint-config-react-app@0.3.0 eslint@3.8.1 babel-eslint@7.0.0 eslint-plugin-react@6.4.1 eslint-plugin-import@2.0.1 eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y@4.0.0 eslint-plugin-flowtype@2.21.0
 ```
 
 We recognize that this is suboptimal, but it is currently required due to the way we hide the ESLint dependency. The ESLint team is already [working on a solution to this](https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/3458) so this may become unnecessary in a couple of months.