W3C

– DRAFT –
Maturity Model Task Force

02 September 2026

Attendees

Present
CharlesL, CharlesL1, Dr_Keith, Fazio, JeffAdams-UN, jkline, Mark_Miller, Neha, Sheri_B-H, Stacey, SusiPallero
Regrets
-
Chair
David Fazio
Scribe
Neha

Meeting minutes

New Business

Sheri_B-H: I will be preenting on 16th

Github Issue #374 Removing Disability Inclusion From The Document

<Sheri_B-H> Sheri_B-H: on the AI-related additions, and Angela young will be helping me

<Fazio> w3c/maturity-model#374

<gb> Issue 374 Removing Disability Inclusion From The Document (by Helixopp)

Fazio: A disability inclusion roadmap that drives ICT accessibility is in place - given

Sheri_B-H: Personnel roadmap that drives ICT accessibility is in place - proposed

Mark_Miller: Roadmap that drives ICT accessibility is in place - proposed?

<Fazio> w3c/maturity-model#374

<Sheri_B-H> w3c/maturity-model#374

Sheri_B-H: Personnel relevant roadmap that drives ICT accessibility is in place - proposed = 4 votes

The overall organizational approach to evaluating recruitment, retention, advancement, and engagement is defined - Given

Sheri_B-H: The overall organizational approach related to disability to evaluating recruitment, retention, advancement, and engagement is defined - proposed

<Sheri_B-H> The overall organizational approach to evaluating accessibility in recruitment, retention, advancement, and engagement is defined

jlkine: evaluating accessibility in recruitment, ....

Fazio: I am not understanding

Sheri_B-H: Evaluating is confusing

Sheri_B-H: The overall organizational approach to evaluating accessibility in recruitment, retention, advancement, and engagement is defined - this is the sentence

Process integration for maturing disability inclusion efforts for ICT accessibility is in progress but not consistently implemented across the organization - given

<Fazio> Process integration for maturing **disability inclusion** efforts for ICT accessibility is in progress but not consistently implemented across the organization

<Sheri_B-H> old

<Sheri_B-H> Process integration for maturing disability inclusion efforts for ICT accessibility is in progress but not consistently implemented across the organization

<Sheri_B-H> new

<Sheri_B-H> Process integration for maturing ICT accessibility efforts related to personnel is in progress but not consistently implemented across the organization

<Neha> +1

old language: Organization-wide, disability inclusion staffing efforts are well-defined, evaluated, remediated, and integrated with ICT accessibility efforts and goals across the organization

proposed language: Organization-wide, staffing efforts are well-defined, evaluated, remediated, and integrated with ICT accessibility efforts and goals across the organization

<Sheri_B-H> Organization-wide staffing efforts are well-defined, evaluated, remediated, and integrated with ICT accessibility efforts and goals across the organization

<Sheri_B-H> Organization-wide disability-related staffing efforts are integrated with ICT accessibility efforts and goals across the organization

proposed language: Organization-wide disability-related staffing efforts are integrated with ICT accessibility efforts and goals across the organization

<Sheri_B-H> Disability-related staffing efforts are well-defined, evaluated, remediated, and integrated with ICT accessibility efforts and goals across the organization

proposed language: Disability-related staffing efforts are integrated with ICT accessibility efforts and goals across the organization

<Fazio> Employees with disabilities hold critical decision-making positions and are **included** in all areas of the organization to drive accessibility in every facet of the business

Old: Employees with disabilities hold critical decision-making positions and are included in all areas of the organization to drive accessibility in every facet of the business

<Sheri_B-H> Employees with disabilities hold critical decision-making positions in all areas of the organization to drive accessibility in every facet of the business

<Sheri_B-H> Employees with disabilities are involved with developing products

old language: Employees with disabilities are leveraged to audit accessibility

Employees with disabilities are leveraged for product development

Employees with disabilities are leveraged for the development of accessible services.

Sheri_B-H: can we combine all these sentences?

Fazio: I thinkn they are present independantly so let us keep them separate

Github Issue #348 Oversight missing - metrics addition

<Fazio> w3c/maturity-model#348

<gb> Issue 348 Oversight missing (by iadawn)

JeffAdams-UN: I didn't get into granularity of it, explaining some..

JeffAdams-UN - all the KPIs can be documented.

Fazio: should this be sectioned or overall one proof point?

JeffAdams-UN: We are considering how it folds in to Goverence, additional proof points or get added to one existing

Sheri_B-H: I think it makes sence to add into Goverence

Fazio: How shpuld we integrate it?

w3c/maturity-model#341 - related issue to #348

<gb> Issue 341 Missing governance/policy (by iadawn)

Sheri_B-H: List is good but lots of them is already mentioned in another dimensions

Sheri_B-H: We need to look at this if it is covered in other dimensions or not

Fazio: some people are saying that we are not telling people how to implement the matrix

Sheri_B-H: which is fine but we have all KPIs mentioned

Mark_Miller: Question is correct but how can we guide them?

JeffAdams-UN: At least a starting point for KPIs where to start from

Sheri_B-H: We hvae to build a model which can be deliverd

Mark_Miller: Some KPIs are not relatable but we have to pick correct one

Sheri_B-H: It is an implementation problem

Sheri_B-H: We can massage Jeff's text and add it in appendix

It should go as a new section after use cases

A.3 - Sheri_B-H

<CharlesL1> in the last issue #374 we did not cover the last "disability and Inclusion" reference: Use Case FiveAn NGO wants to determine which areas it should address to improve internal disability inclusion in the next fiscal year.

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 248 (Mon Oct 27 20:04:16 2025 UTC).

Diagnostics

Maybe present: jlkine, Old

All speakers: Fazio, JeffAdams-UN, jlkine, Mark_Miller, Old, Sheri_B-H

Active on IRC: CharlesL1, Dr_Keith, Fazio, JeffAdams-UN, jkline, Mark_Miller, Neha, Sheri_B-H, Stacey, SusiPallero