In reply to Amanda Rush.

That’s even more promising! If in fact the solutions are indeed out there, then it’s just a matter of time before one or more volunteers take their experience and knowledge and address the a11y deficiencies.

Was this level of knowledge available on the Gutenberg project and was it addressed? Sounds like it was not or it was not volunteered. Which leaves it to Automattic to decide how to allocate their limited resources across all that they do. Automattic could have made a business decision for “later.”

Faulting Automattic for making this decision is unfair because in the end the project to this day has been volunteer driven and if the volunteers can’t or are unwilling to do a11y in Gutenberg then Automattic has to step in. It sounds like the expectation was to have Automattic was expected to address this with paid resources due to their level of expertise that was not available elsewhere. And they “drew the line” so to speak just like so many companies do every day while research and development happens.