[Accessibility-testing] Status update, and regular meeting proposal

[Jason McIntosh]

Hi all,

Since my last email to this list I’ve had meetings with Zarf and Deborah, and traded further mail with furkle. Zarf is set to make the Inform variant of “Cloak of Accessibly” his next off-hours project (thought that a Bad Title I just made up and please nobody call it that), and furkle’s pondering ways to adapt and expand her Twine “happy path” work from last fall towards this updated purpose. And all that is excellent!

I’d like to press this initial action into some regular momentum by having biweekly meetings. (I had tried “office hours” on the Slack, but three weeks later I think that may be a bit too passive a stance for our purposes.) I see that this group last had a live chat on September 29, and I’d basically like to do that again as a regular habit, so that we can all check in with our ongoing work, trade notes, ask questions, and plan for the next couple of weeks, a couple of weeks at a time.

Attendance at the meetings would be not mandatory but encouraged, and I will send a post-meeting debrief to this list after each both to catch up anyone who couldn’t attend and to encourage further discussion.

The agenda of each meeting would have the tech leads report on their respective projects’ current status, detail their expectations for the next couple of weeks, and allow for relevant discussion among the tech leads and the assembled accessibly-expert coterie.

If that sounds like a good idea, may I propose that the first such meeting happen on Monday, April 30, at 6 PM Eastern?