Add Andrew Macpherson to the Maintainers.txt

Subscribing ;-) Thanks for asking me on board Mike.

Bumping the status - I don't know what the process is for this kind of issue, but I guess it needs to have a status which will attract attention :-)

I've written some of my thoughts about future accessibility directions in D8 and D9 in the accessibility group on g.d.o

I was really stoked when Mike asked if I'd consider becoming a core maintainer. I have barely stopped bouncing around my home.

Andrew has also been contributing to for example the RefreshLess module in a very constructive, productive way — the same way we work in Drupal core. It's been a pleasure working with him on that.

So, +1.

I have barely stopped bouncing around my home.

We'd be silly not to let him bounce around Drupal core's accessibility issues then :)

Absolutely agree. Thanks Mike. Wholeheartedly agree with the points that Andrew raises regarding Inline Form Errors, Drupal.Announce, Tabbing Order, and ARIA properties for vertical tabs. Yes, we need to keep innovating on this! You've definitely got my +1!

We need more people like Andrew to help further accessibility in Drupal +1

Just wanted to add my +1. He's been inspirational at advocating accessible designs and user experiences at Annertech, and I think he would be a great addition to further accessibility in Drupal core.

I support this under one condition!

@andrewmacpherson must submit a core conversation about Accessibility to DrupalCon Dublin. (Disclaimer: I am on the track team for core conversations.)

Yep a core conversation is a good idea. Do they go through the normal session submission process? It's not open yet for Dublin, but I'm certainly intending to go.

The g.d.o post mentioned earlier has some of our ideas. I think the foggiest a11y outlook ahead of us has to do with adopting a front-end framework, for progressive decoupling and more application-like behaviour. Whatever happens there will involve a lot of refactoring, so the challenge will be to maintain our current level of a11y (at least) - though I expect there will also be more opportunities to innovate around accessible widgets and notifications.

@andrewmacpherson - yes, core conversations go through normal session submissions, they should be opening oven the next few weeks.

Awesome, thanks @mgifford for the recommendation and @andrewmacpherson for being willing to take this on! Sounds like he will be an excellent addition as an Accessibility topic maintainer.

Before we add this, @andrewmacpherson, can you confirm that you're comfortable with the core governance policy, particularly the topic maintainer responsibilities? (We already have the signoff of another topic maintainer from @mgifford.)

Setting to NR for that confirmation. Thanks!

Oh also, just a reminder for committers: This is for a topic maintainer role, so per https://www.drupal.org/contribute/core/maintainers#decisions (see point 11) this should be assigned to Dries once it is RTBC again with that confirmation.

Re: #14 - Yes, I'm happy with the core governance policy. I've read though it all a couple of times since this issue was opened.

The bot is happy again.

Yay! Thanks @andrewmacpherson.

setting to RTBC as was in #18

This needed a reroll after #2744881: jhodgdon stepping away from MAINTAINERS.txt

Ah, thanks naveenvaalecha. Back to RTBC then...

Re-rolled patch.

And again.

Testbot fluke, back to RTBC

the above are random updatepathtestcase failures

+1 from me! Feel free to commit this patch, or I can do it later this week.

YAY! Thanks @Dries!

And welcome @andrewmacpherson!

Committed 3f1ad36 and pushed to 8.2.x and 6046b58 to 8.1.x. Also adding @andrewmacpherson as an issue maintainer at https://www.drupal.org/node/3060 (you'll now have lots more options in the assigned field!) and as a member for https://groups.drupal.org/core (to be able to post announcements about the topic to the core list).

Thanks everyone!

you'll now have lots more options in the assigned field!

I always wondered how that worked!

Well done Andrew. This is great news.

From working with you over the last three years at Annertech, my knowledge of and consideration for accessibility has increased massively, so much so that I have you mentioned as a mentor on my profile.