WordPress, Accessibility, and Gutenberg

Rian Rietveld resigned from the leadership of the WordPress Accessibility team today. When I first started talking about Gutenberg, I touted it as a future for creating a new, more accessible experience for both authors and website visitors. I was very optimistic – nervous, and aware that this was going to be a challenge, but optimistic.
Part of what I hoped for has happened – but far from all of it. There are good things about Gutenberg. Monitoring the hierarchy of headings in your content is great. The internal color contrast testing is valuable. But there are many more important things that have not been addressed.
I’ve hardly had any involvement in the last year. The development of Gutenberg was radically different from the rest of WordPress. It’s been an exclusionary process from the beginning – requiring people to learn new tools, new ways of working with WordPress, and new languages just to have the opportunity to be involved. It’s been hugely destructive for people who have already committed a lot of time (at their own expense) to the current system. This has prevented me from being able to participate. (Along with a number of unrelated issues
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