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145---
title: "June 2026 Development Report"
date: 2026-06-01
description: "Monthly development progress report for June 2026"
author: "Equalify Team"
---
# June 2026 Development Report
**Reporting period:** May 4 – Jun 1, 2026
**Sources:** [#617](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify/issues/617), [#620](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify/issues/620), [#623](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify/issues/623), [#626](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify/issues/626), [#627](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify/issues/627)
**Contributors:** T. Daniel, C. Aitken
## Executive Summary
June was a strong month focused on intelligent features and platform stability, with 32 tasks completed across 132 code commits at a 59% completion rate. The team delivered the initial implementation of LLM-powered blocker summaries to production, providing users with AI-generated remediation guidance for individual accessibility issues. Significant infrastructure hardening addressed scan reliability, query performance, and data accuracy, while the team also completed a stale blocker analysis to guide upcoming performance optimizations.
## Highlights
- **Launched LLM-powered blocker summaries**, delivering AI-generated descriptions and remediation guidance for individual accessibility issues from development through production deployment
- **Improved shared audit experience**, adding a visual banner to distinguish public read-only audit views and an explanatory modal for the share workflow
- **Resolved scan reliability issues**, including fixes for stuck scans, query timeouts, and load balancing that improve overall platform stability
- **Completed stale blocker analysis**, documenting a strategy to address the 20-million-record performance bottleneck in the blockers table
- **Deployed crawl and WordPress integration features** to the staging environment for validation ahead of production release
## Key Metrics
| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| Tasks completed | **32** |
| Tasks remaining | 46 |
| New tasks added | 24 |
| Completion rate | **59%** |
| Code commits | **132** |
| Repositories with activity | **5** |
| Issue edits (activity) | 56 |
| Source issues | 5 |
*(Note: 24 new tasks were identified and added during the reporting period, which accounts for the expanded backlog.)*
## Completed Work
### Team
- Deployed the crawl module and WordPress integration features to the staging environment for validation.
- Completed the RED plugin deployment to production.
- Delivered site onboarding features, including the Lambda-based crawling service, integration into the audit builder, and external linked CSV support for WordPress plugin URL synchronization.
- Published the April 2026 development report.
### T. Daniel
- Implemented the admin-settable co-brand logo feature for institutional partner branding.
- Added a scanning state indicator to the Audits screen so users can see when scans are in progress.
- Corrected incorrect URL count displays in audit views.
- Aligned language between the WordPress plugin and the Build Audit screen to ensure consistency and emphasize synchronization functionality.
- Investigated anomalous PDF scan metrics where the scanStarted metric was reporting unusually high numbers and PDF-heavy audits showed elevated blocker counts.
- Evaluated the addition of UX performance metrics to monitor frontend responsiveness.
- Resolved the blocker detail page performance issue where navigation to an individual blocker showed a "not found" state before loading.
- Improved blocker filter categories for more intuitive navigation.
- Fixed a bug with blocker table content type filtering.
- Delivered LLM-powered blocker summaries end-to-end: created the database table, configured permissions, set up AWS Bedrock access for the production API, developed and tested the feature in staging, and deployed to production.
- Developed initial work on a centralized stats package for platform usage metrics (users, audits, scan activity).
- Investigated slow blocker table fetching and identified performance constraints.
### C. Aitken
- Identified underlying issue with blocker scalability, refactored and successfully ran a migration on production to bring blockers query from 60+ seconds to <1 second load time.
- Added total blockers count display to the interface.
- Fixed the CSV export feature to export the complete blocker dataset rather than only the currently visible page.
- Completed database schema version control and Hasura metadata version control implementation.
- Built a Chrome extension prototype for accessibility testing workflows.
- Worked with Amanda to update user-facing documentation.
- Updated documentation with new site onboarding workflows for crawling and WordPress integration.
- Completed the May 2026 development report.
## Notable Events
- **May 18** (B. Bertuccelli-Booth): Provided strategic feedback recommending that infrastructure planning prioritize cloud-provider agnosticism, noting that many community members do not use AWS and the platform should minimize vendor lock-in.
- **May 21** (C. Aitken): Published the [Equalify Stale Blocker Analysis](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1duSPv3KCgtMh8OUX1j1dBzJKQabSIW-mVf_qk4Pl1O0/edit?usp=sharing), documenting the performance bottleneck caused by retaining all historical blocker data (approximately 20 million records) and proposing an archival strategy.
## Risks & Blockers
- **Blockers table performance bottleneck:** The blockers database table contains approximately 20 million records, causing slow query performance. A stale blocker analysis has been completed and an archival strategy is under development.
- **Short ID namespace collision:** Short ID generation was producing collisions that could cause scans to appear incomplete. The ID length has been increased from 6 to 8 characters as an interim fix; further investigation continues.
- **Hardcoded configuration values:** Paths, regions, and service names are currently hardcoded throughout the codebase, which must be refactored to a centralized configuration before the platform can be deployed by other institutions.
## In Progress & Upcoming
### Development
- Investigate detailed view performance and conduct a scalability audit. *(C. Aitken)*
- Fix table CSS styling issues. *(T. Daniel)*
- Implement semantic versioning with standardized commit message formats and surface current version in the user interface. *(C. Aitken)*
- Add semantic release information to the Hub. *(C. Aitken)*
### Operations
- Refactor all hardcoded paths, regions, and service names to a centralized environment configuration file. *(T. Daniel)*
- Include crawl and CSV integration features in the CI/CD pipeline. *(C. Aitken)*
### Newly Identified Work
- Add disclosure language to AI-generated blocker summaries indicating the content is LLM-generated, as discussed in the May 27 DASE meeting. *(T. Daniel)*
## Development Activity
### Contributor Activity
| Contributor | Commits |
|------------|--------|
| T. Daniel | 50 |
| B. Bertuccelli-Booth | 35 |
| A. Roper | 28 |
| C. Aitken | 12 |
### Active Repositories
| Repository | Commits |
|-----------|--------|
| [equalify](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify) | 58 |
| [equalify-iris](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify-iris) | 37 |
| [equalify-docs](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify-docs) | 29 |
| [equalify-reflow-reader](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify-reflow-reader) | 5 |
| [equalify-hub](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify-hub) | 3 |
### Recent Commit Highlights
- Implemented LLM-powered blocker summaries end-to-end, including initial integration with AWS Bedrock, prompt refinement, markdown-to-HTML output parsing, error handling, and migration from direct database access to Hasura for the options table.
- Improved the shared audit experience by adding a visual banner to the public read-only view and replacing the direct clipboard copy with an explanatory modal when sharing an audit.
- Resolved multiple scan reliability issues: implemented exponential backoff retry logic for GraphQL queries, fixed stuck scan clearing based on recurring CloudWatch errors, and improved Hasura load balancing handling.
- Increased the short ID length from 6 to 8 characters to reduce namespace collisions that could cause scans to appear incomplete.
- Fixed a database-side function that was producing incorrect audit summary counts.
- Added basic mobile styling to improve the platform's responsiveness on smaller screens.
- Removed legacy telemetry (Posthog) and cleaned up unused code including hardcoded email values and an unused SMS function, preparing the codebase for open-source readiness.
- Optimized scan polling behavior to stop refetching after scan completion and increased the polling interval to reduce unnecessary network requests.
## Planned Sprints
### FOSS Sprint / Infrastructure Week (1-2 weeks)
This sprint focuses on making Equalify deployable by any institution on AWS. The team will select an infrastructure-as-code framework (evaluating Terraform, OpenTofu, and alternatives), create build and deployment scripts for provisioning all required components, determine a deployment strategy for pushing code updates to provisioned infrastructure, and produce both technical documentation for deployment and a developer-focused introduction to the platform.
### Design and Maintenance Sprint (1-2 weeks)
This sprint will establish a cohesive visual direction for the platform, including alignment on an overall palette, branding guidelines, a component design system for interface consistency, dark mode support, mobile-responsive layouts, and a general code and style cleanup including componentization and minimization of global styles. The sprint will also include planning discussions for roll-up reporting across multiple audits and more fine-grained user-to-audit group permissions.