In reply to Matthew Hodgson.

Hi, Matthew! Thanks for joining the conversation! The quote from Alex comes from a conversation discussing arco Zehe’s article on Matrix accessibility from July 2020. The context isn’t as negative as it sounds in isolation; it was simply an observation that the article is almost 3 years old, and didn’t provide a lot of context for what might have changed since then.

The whole conversation can be reviewed in the WordPress Slack instance

The primary concern is with the risk of leaving behind the WordPress contributors with disabilities in the search for an open source solution, so we want to make sure any future solution is thoroughly vetted before switching.