Maturity Model – 23 July 2025

Meeting minutes

janina: to have a APA breakout at TPAC, we need an agenda. doesn't seem forthcoming

Fazio: how to get people to use it, etc.

janina: we have to have these discussions here (MM) first and then pitch it to APA

janina: we should do a breakout because we are going 1.0 to announce it is ready for widespread use

<Fazio> Sheri: Look at AI impact on maturity model

<Fazio> Sheri: Include Dominique in convo

Janina: also Jutta

janina: how do we use it, worried about stunting creativity by relying on a technology that is good at regurgitating what is out on the internet

<Fazio> Sheri: how does a company stay a11y mature while using AI

Janina: we should do two breakouts, one for 1.0 and one for 1.1

Fazio: duplicate for CSUN?

Sheri: yeah as one presentation

Fazio will submit TPAC for 1.0

Sheri_B-H will submit for 1.1, after sharing draft in email for comments

jkline: we need to get the person in (@charlesl acquaintance) who converted the spreadsheet to HTML

person's name is John

CharlesL will see if he's available next week, otherwise 2nd or 3rd week of august since Charles will be out the first week of August

Fazio: noted discrepency between editors drafts and recent commits

Fazio will discuss with Roy

Fazio: research update is pushed, janina's updates to the abstract and introduction are pushed (even though they aren't showing up)

Fazio: spreadsheet is reordered, Jennifer Zhang is doing accessibility updates

Fazio: started reordering of narrative, but stopped because commits aren't showing up

Fazio: that is the last piece that needs to be finished

Fazio: that should be wrapped up by the end of the month

janina: nothing from management, they are waiting for us to tell them we are done

q jkline

general discussion around conflicts between what is pushed and what is showing

fazio: needs to get exact commit ids that are failing to Roy

janina: if the content of the push contains the external link to the spreadsheet, that might be triggering the error

Fazio: Neha and Fazio will work on it over the next week

janina: we may have put back in the excel spreadsheet prematurely, we might have to take it out, finish the other changes, then push it back in