This was a special meeting to discuss items key to the group moving forward, including but not exclusively: Discuss new times for the bug scrub and weekly meetings but also an Accessibility Vision for WordPress.
Opening/Introduction by Joe Dolson
To start this off, I’d like to make a few comments. WordPress Accessibility has, for years, worked on a catch-up schedule. Fixing historic issues in the software, then scrambling to keep up with the pace of work in the block and site editor.
But we haven’t had a solid long-term vision of what we want to achieve.
That may sound very simple: we want the most accessible software we can achieve. However, having concrete goals needs more than some vague abstraction.
The primary purpose of having an accessibility team – as opposed to independent accessibility contributors – is to set an overall goal. The “team” part is about coordinating efforts and having some kind of consensus.
Having a vision is about documenting our mutual goal and the process for reaching it.
You can read the full transcript of all the thoughts and discussion points here.