W3C

– DRAFT –
Maturity Model Task Force

06 August 2025

Attendees

Present
Fazio, janina, jkline, Mark_Miller, Neha, Sheri_B-H
Regrets
Dr. Keith
Chair
David Fazio
Scribe
Sheri_B-H, Neha

Meeting minutes

New Business

no new business

zaki, next item

update on publication progress

Fazio: pretty good to go. There may still be some reordering issues

Fazio: Neha will check on the reordering stuff

Fazio: Jennifer still has accessibility updates pending

Fazio: We should move ahead anyways, those can come at the end

jkline: latest spreadsheet version is dated June 11, go to the last tab, it got renamed oversight and culture

Fazio: one thing we might want to do is github issue about proof points related to financial allocations

Fazio: Jeff wants it in all dimensions, but I think we should put it at least in Oversight and Culture

Jeff: it is in that dimension already on line 21

Jeff to send out correct spreadsheet to everyone

Fazio: not in the narrative so we need to take a look at that

janina: I am confused about the worksheet vs template language

janina: proposal is to call it an assessment tool, currently Excel, in the future it might be in HTML or other formats

everyone agreed this was a good change, janina will make the changes

Issue is 279

Second item, we have a phrase "supports plans" janina wants "supports planning"

no one objected, a couple of +1s

it's so trivial, janina will make the change directly

third item, the reference to other maturity models considered is still the old text

jkline: says its in there, janina might be reading the old version

janina: OK, they need URLs

Jeff: they are behind firewalls

janina: doesn't matter, we should point to them anyways. it makes our contribution seem more valuable

jeff: what if it leads people elsewhere

Sheri_B-H: so what

Fazio: W3C gives us more clout

Jeff: What if the URLs change

Janina: we can update it later, we aren't responsible for URLs changing

janina: we need to genericize references to Microsoft products

Sheri_B-H: we shouldn't look like we are endorsing a specific product

Fazio: delete the parenthesis that provide the Microsoft details

janina: delete the parenthetical, if we get comments, we can put something back in

Fazio: new issue, 281

Jeff: will also have to make the modification in the assessment tool, section 3.1

Line 4

janina: need to do final search and destroy on "company" and replace with "organization"

Fazio: Neha can fix, Jeff will review spreadsheet

janina: let's replace lawyer with legal representative

Fazio: issue 284, Neha can do it

all in the appendix, so no need to review the spreadsheet

janina: we need internal hyperlinks (anchor) from the introduction into the use cases

issue 285, Neha will do it

janina: Whenever we mention any W3C stuff, add hyperlinks. Especially when we are encouraging people to learn this stuff

issue 286: Neha will do it

Janina: will take this to Shawn, this is minor cleanup

Github Issue #244 Proof points related to financial allocations that support digital accessibility maturity missing

jeff says this has been done as part of the spreadsheet synchronization

so it just needs to be added to the narrative and whomever adds it can close the issue

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

Diagnostics

Maybe present: Jeff

All speakers: Fazio, janina, Jeff, jkline, Sheri_B-H

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