Timeline

Apr 24, 2026Milestone

The discomfort that became a project

At the “Who's left out when AI works?” roundtable in the TDC Summit São Paulo Community Lounge, accessibility keeps being framed as compliance and punishment. The discomfort leaves the room as a question: what if the rules entered the AI's context before its first answer?

Frontend Dogma, Jens Oliver Meiert's accessibility archive, lists the project on the day it is born.

On day two, someone takes a copy to build on (@Hiltonjunior). A standard only exists once it leaves its author's hands.

Maria Eduarda Iwashita runs a blind-baseline A/B test against a pre-1.0 version — without asking permission, which is how science works. Her findings return to this timeline in August.

The three compliance profiles (Shield, Standard, Launchpad), the AI behavior contract and the technical guide library form the first stable version.

Every requirement now cites its WCAG criterion by number, separated from House Rules†. And the translation layer for iOS, Android, React Native and Flutter — the only one in the field — joins the library.

Jul 2026Milestone

The standard reaches a real building

The São Paulo CEUs portal (Faculdade Phorte × City Hall, design by Marcelo Vignola) is born with A11Y.md in the AI's working rules — and the conversation spills off the screen: the team starts studying physical accessibility improvements in the educational centers themselves.

An agent applied the standard for weeks and never produced the evidence artifacts. The lesson — the obligation existed, the trigger did not — became a rule, and the repository gained its first executable checker.

Video and audio get their own contract, WCAG 2.2's cognitive criteria join the floor — and the pre-release audit finds the conformance gate neutralized by its own template. Fixed, and told in the changelog.

Independent Verification joins the contract: the agent that wrote the code cannot be the sole witness that it conforms. Five new guides — including generative interfaces — and voice-control validation in the checklist.

Discussions opened, contribution forms (field reports, errata, proposals, gallery) and a complete security policy. That day, the repository stood at 363 stars and 15 forks — with 18 contract rules and 29 guides in the library.

Every major change traces to a number in the studies: contrast computed by deterministic tooling, the Brazilian NBR 17225 norm mapped, a pioneer guide for automatic Libras translators, the agentic-web layer — and an evidence-gated token diet that paid for all the growth.