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# FY21 Accessibility Planning

Notes: 
- Update on FY20 progress
- Update on FY21 Fabric controls

Next Steps
- Collect data to understand the remaining impact
- Come up with plan on for the current set issues
- Set up the goals for project
- Decide on the remaining components
- Decide on items


# FY21 Accessibility Plan 

# Short Term

## Next Steps
- Audit all our a11y issues (across GitHub and ADO)
    - Come up with a prioritized list of issues
        - What's the actual principles (how do we prioritize? By impact? By impact and product affected?)
    - Create a cut line
    - Make sure the code owners file is up to date according to Component for a11y
    - Determine what fits in July Project?

- Where is our component design source of truth?
    - Is is really Ben True?
    - Is there a document somewhere?
    - Is a mix of Ben and Component authors?
    - Is it just the ARIA spec?
    [Xu]: we first look at ARIA spec. And for more complex scenarios we ask Ben truelove and component owners for expected behaviors.
    
- We need help from an a11y experts are these folks we can rely on:
    - Jarij (sp)
    - Sarah?
    - Chris Sheverly? DetailsList on point person
    - Ben True (from Design?)

- Scorecard 
    - Need to document how the scorecard system work (main audience for this are developers)

# Long Term

## Why?
*what are our goals? what are we trying to accomplish*

1 Markus - the best UI library that implements a11y
    - All 70+ components adhere to the ARIA spec
    - All 70+ components support new WCAG 2.1 guidelines
    - All 70+ components adhere to the MAS guidelines
    - Accrediation by some a11y standards body 
2 Legal and Business impacts that a11y have on our Microsoft Products


- All 70+ components support new WCAG 2.1 guidelines
- All 70+ components adhere to the MAS guidelines


## What?
- Clear documentation setting the aligned/agreed expectations with Eng/PM/Anita

 
## How?
- How to prioritize
- How to resource dev to fix bugs
- How do customers reach us for urgent issues
- Improve on areas (e.g. get notified with stale bugs; design spec for a11y) we are lacking


## GitHub
- Highly recommend the use of our Bug Template - create systems that leverage this template to help us and other teams

## ADO
- Highly recommend the use of our Bug Template - create systems that leverage this template to help us and other teams
- Make sure we can plug the template into various bug filing systems and people that file issues