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Community Communication and Collaboration

Derived from 6 responses out of 69
Room 306 B
Facilitator: Dennis Lembree

Theme Description

There are significant gaps in communication between developers and people who actually need accessibility tools. The lack of inclusive participation from people with disabilities in development processes means validation and real-world testing is insufficient.

Participants (8)

community-communication-collaboration on Slack

Source Responses

  1. Response 1:
    "Clear and accessible methods to submit issues or how to get access to submit to repos. Sometimes the instructions for this, even if on an accessible platform, are quite complicated and confusing."
  2. Response 2:
    "I would say having less people with disabilities involved while working on the accessibility issues. Getting more of such people involved in the process helps validate the changes easily."
  3. Response 3:
    "Are open source creators listening and acting on feedback pointing out a11y barriers"
  4. Response 4:
    "Hard / painful to obtain insights from users on what is needed."
  5. Response 5:
    "Lack of communication between developers and people who need the a11y tools. If we brought in someone who uses a11y tools and showed them how horrible our sites were, then devs might care"
  6. Response 6:
    "Naming convention or terminology differences between contributors and consumers."
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