Six years of work to make WordPress admin notices announce to screen readers — reverted in a day.
On Trac ticket #50486, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg wrote "Please revert all of this," and told Andrea Fercia — a core committer since 2015 who has contributed to 33 releases — that he no longer holds any WordPress.org positions and should contribute his talents to another project. The change was reverted within about a day and pushed to a future release.
Whatever you think of the decision, the lesson is structural: accessibility that lives inside a platform you don't control can be undone by one person's decision. If your CMS or your vendor carries your accessibility, you don't own it — you're renting it.
Own the standard. Test with actual users. Keep the expertise in-house, even when a platform helps.
Source: The Repository — https://www.therepository.email/matt-mullenweg-orders-accessibility-revert-tells-core-committer-to-contribute-your-talents-to-another-project
#Accessibility #A11y #UX #DigitalAccessibility
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Desarae Veit
Senior UI/UX web designer at a large-scale IT contractor for defense, intelligence, and civilian government solutions. Adventurist and certified Yoga / Barre Instructor. Love aviation, books, and travel.Prefer long light hearted series in mystery, comedy, fantasy, and romance.
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