tl dr I think the team can prioritize…

tl; dr: I think the team can prioritize its time and efforts better, especially around new development.

At this point you’ve all probably seen https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/26527

If this had been raised a week ago, would have been no problem. Plenty of time to create and test a fix.

The metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.-issue is that this is an easy catch, and keyboard accessibility is on every basic accessibility checklist. It’s been present since the very earliest days of the THX pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.

As we do features as plugins, it’s really important that this group run and test those plugins every week to provide the perspective, experience, and patches to ensure the plugins meet the high standards of accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) we set for ourselves. Even if a feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. never comes into coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., it might become the canonical implementation of a given idea and be popular on its own right, and so worth investing time into.