Title: Accessibility Team Meetings Suspended
Author: Joe Dolson
Published: October 12, 2024
Last modified: October 14, 2024

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joedolson/) [Joe Dolson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joedolson/)
8:04 pm _on_ October 12, 2024      

# Accessibility Team Meetings Suspended

As neither of the current 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) team representatives are able to log-in to WordPress.orgWordPress.
org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. 
This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes
as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. [https://wordpress.org/](https://wordpress.org/),
team meetings are suspended until further notice. Bug scrubs will continue to run
as normal.

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 1.  ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/172fa76dbbba38a68e38fb5a01f6422ded55422499798136ed7636364ca57ad5?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 2.   [Guillaume G.](https://profiles.wordpress.org/g4ll4is/)  8:58 am _on_ October
     13, 2024
 3.  This is bad. Do we know what’s blocking them ? Is it a technical issue (maybe 
     related to the login form changes) ? Or is it something else ?
 4.  ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4fd344e387cd0febbb417ee2a2bef7db6b40c8f7ecf4265fb41dcef8e9fa8c4b?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 5.   [Joe Dolson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joedolson/)  3:34 pm _on_ October
     13, 2024
 6.  One person is not certain whether they can safely check the WP Engine box, and
     one person has been removed from SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat
     Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/). The WordPress community has
     its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/),
     and is also unwilling to check the WP Engine box. So yes, it is largely related
     to the login form changes.
 7.   * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/33252cd1f33526af53580fcb1736172f06e6716f32afdd1be19ec3096d15dea5?
        s=32&d=mm&r=g)
      *  [Matt Mullenweg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/)  12:05 pm _on_ October
        14, 2024
      * We should find some new team reps to replace them, do you have any suggestions?
         - ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/981b3572602a34d8e4f3b6eaf5cc0d2e1e9b6110c9e1663cc600a3d8c47b6c1d?
           s=32&d=mm&r=g)
         -  [Blake Bertuccelli-Booth](https://profiles.wordpress.org/elblakeo31/)  
           2:25 pm _on_ October 14, 2024
         - I’m of course happy to do whatever it takes to make WordPress Accessible.
           How can I jump in and help?
 8.  ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/776e9f93cb72a6ef49cc303f0f3a5843419a07f0043cb23d64f49db44c56aeba?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 9.   [Seth Goldstein](https://profiles.wordpress.org/goldsteinmedia/)  4:19 pm _on_
     October 13, 2024
 10. Geez

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