Follow the Journey
Open Door Design is being built in public, one tested improvement at a time. This page tracks the progress of the projects, the lessons learned along the way, and what is coming next.
Currently Building
CPACC Accessible Academy
The complete five-domain course remains available while review, refinement, and maintenance continue.
Open the CPACC Accessible Academy
CPACC Accessible Lab
The functional Lab continues to expand its questions, explanations, challenge modes, and learning support.
WCAG Accessible Academy
The WCAG learning platform is growing through detailed lessons, testing guidance, remediation strategies, and continued accessibility review.
Open the WCAG Accessible Academy
WCAG Accessible Lab
The functional Lab continues to grow its scenario-based practice and WCAG application activities.
Beepball Practice Caller
The application is functioning and awaiting additional preferred team recordings and continued field feedback.
Open the Beepball Practice Caller
Open Door Accessible Assistant
The assistant is under active development. Current functionality is only an early layer of a much broader accessibility workflow vision.
How the Work and Its Names Evolved
The assistant began as the Media Workflow Assistant because its first practical goals involved captioning, transcription, audio description, compression, and preparing media for artificial intelligence. As the workflow engine grew, it became clear that the same goal-first approach could support documents, websites, EPUB, WCAG guidance, and many other accessibility tasks. The name evolved with the vision, becoming the Open Door Accessible Assistant.
The word choice across the Academies and Labs evolved too. Earlier repository names used “Accessibility,” while the current product names use “Accessible.” Accessibility remains the purpose and discipline behind the work. Accessible describes what each learning environment and application is being built to become: something people can enter, use, test, and help improve.
None of these projects are frozen displays. Their names, capabilities, and accessibility continue to develop through real use. As features become functional enough to provide value, they will be exposed publicly for exploration and critique.
Recent Milestones
- The CPACC Accessible Academy was completed across all five domains.
- The CPACC Accessible Lab grew to more than 450 questions, with additional questions still being developed.
- The WCAG Accessible Lab reached a mostly complete state, with more scenario-based questions planned.
- The Beepball Practice Caller reached a mostly complete state and is waiting for additional team-preferred recordings.
- The Open Door Accessible Assistant completed its first end-to-end workflow, including inspection, recommendation, execution, and Markdown file generation.
- The Open Door Design website was updated to reflect the current status of the project ecosystem.
What We Are Learning
The strongest work happens when accessibility is treated as the foundation rather than a final inspection. Screen reader testing, keyboard behavior, focus management, meaningful headings, clear instructions, and flexible interaction are being tested as the projects grow.
The Academy work has also established a new writing rule: lessons must teach, not merely cover a topic. Each section should help learners understand why a barrier exists, how it affects people, how professionals evaluate it, and how the concept connects to real accessibility practice.
What Comes Next
Immediate priorities include expanding both Labs, deepening the WCAG Accessible Academy, continuing review of the CPACC Accessible Academy, adding preferred recordings to the Beepball Practice Caller, and exposing additional Open Door Accessible Assistant workflows as they become ready for real use and critique.
This page will continue to grow as milestones are completed, new challenges are discovered, and the community contributes ideas and feedback.
Join the Journey
Open Door Design welcomes feedback from accessibility professionals, disabled users, educators, developers, testers, and anyone interested in more inclusive technology. Explore the projects, test what is available, and share what would make them better.