W3C

– DRAFT –
Maturity Model Task Force

30 July 2025

Attendees

Present
CharlesL, Dr_Keith, Fazio, janina, jkline, Mark_Miller, Neha, Sheri_B-H
Regrets
-
Chair
David Fazio
Scribe
Neha

Meeting minutes

New Business

CharlesL: Had a talk with John Higgins at Benetech to move excel sheet to web through AI and he said to do it on 13th August

janina: Thanks for doing this John, would we be okay to open it to others APA participants?

janina: If we are okay, let me do this

CharlesL: This is just POC, let us see how it goes ahead

janina: This idea is what we are planning to do manually but now by AI. CharlesL: you can create a presentation to show that internally

Fazio: Cna we record the demo?

CharlesL: I can confirm with John

janina: Presentaion on baseline on web technologies on 20th

janina: ANyone from MM can join too

Fazio: How long will it take?

CharlesL: We can do it in the beginning of the meeting

update on publication progress

Fazio: We have some updates from Jennifer other wise we are ready. a11y updates should not held us back. Other updates will be done by next week

Jeff q+

Jeff: Shall we ask Jennifer to make it available now or let us know what are going to be updates?

janina: Trying to understand what Jennifer is doing, adding tags, checking combobox or checking text?

janina: But yes that should not hold us up

Fazio: We have wide review before moving to final call

janina: We are asking for wider review, outside of this group

CharlesL: Need to add contract life cycle or remove it.

Fazio: Neha and I will review it again and check what needs to be done

Sheri_B-H: Jeff needs to look at contract life cycle

Sheri_B-H: SHould we delete it from the glossary or refer it somewhere it is needed?

Jeff: It is in procurement sheet: Row 29

Sheri_B-H: Needs to track issue related to this as well

janina: I want to propose a timeline

janina: I will check for any other conerns, also check with managements, give me next week

janina: We can say end os Spet looking good for final document

janina: If nothing actionable then October look good to publish

Dr_Keith: is there a limit on due date?

janina" Yes there will be

Fazio: basically we are giving a month

Review Oversight & Culture Dimension Description

<Fazio> Organizational culture consists of shared beliefs, values, policies, and processes established by leaders that ultimately shape employee perceptions, behaviors, and understanding.

<Fazio> To demonstrate cultural maturity in accessibility, all aspects of the organization's operation, processes, and skills should include considerations for disability inclusion. Every member of the organization should understand and be sensitive to the importance of ICT accessibility, including their personal role and responsibilities in meeting the

<Fazio> organization’s accessibility goals. Accessibility should be an integral part of diversity and inclusion within the organization, with a clear recognition of the benefits of disability inclusion and the impact of ICT accessibility on people with disabilities to facilitate access to jobs, services, and other aspects of life.

Fazio: We have renamed Oversight & Culture but is description is sufficient?

<Sheri_B-H> you acked the wrong person Neha

Dr_Keith: Is D & I is central part of this model? If yes, where?

Sheri_B-H: I think it does read okay for both

Sheri_B-H: policies, and processes this feeds back to oversight

Sheri_B-H: Oversight & Culture consists of shared beliefs, values, policies, and processes established by leaders that ultimately shape employee perceptions, behaviors, and understanding.

Sheri_B-H: focus should be in disability inclusion and not diversity and inclusion

<Mark_Miller1> off the q, I need to take a call.

janina: We are going to talk about technology and how we make it accessbile

janina: This is a framwork to check that

<Fazio> Oversight and culture consists of shared beliefs, values, policies, and processes established by leaders that ultimately shape employee perceptions, behaviors, and understanding.

<Fazio> To demonstrate oversight and cultural maturity in accessibility, all aspects of the organization's operation, processes, and skills should include considerations for to support individuals with disabilities. Every member of the organization should understand and be sensitive to the importance of ICT accessibility, including their personal role and

<Fazio> responsibilities in meeting the organization’s accessibility goals. Accessibility should be an integral part of the organization.

<Dr_Keith> +1

<Mark_Miller1> +1

Fazio: I logging this in github issue

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 244 (Thu Feb 27 01:23:09 2025 UTC).

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Maybe present: Jeff

All speakers: CharlesL, Dr_Keith, Fazio, janina, Jeff, Sheri_B-H

Active on IRC: CharlesL, Dr_Keith, Fazio, janina, jkline, Mark_Miller, Mark_Miller1, Neha, Sheri_B-H