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154---
title: "May 2026 Development Report"
date: 2026-05-01
description: "Monthly development progress report for May 2026"
author: "Equalify Team"
---
# May 2026 Development Report
**Reporting period:** Apr 7 – May 5, 2026
**Sources:** [#599](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify/issues/599), [#604](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify/issues/604), [#609](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify/issues/609), [#612](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify/issues/612), [#617](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify/issues/617)
**Contributors:** T. Daniel, C. Aitken
## Executive Summary
May was a highly productive month for Equalify, with 31 tasks completed across 156 code commits and significant progress on platform extensibility and user-facing improvements. The team delivered the WordPress integration plugin from initial development through review, completed the site crawling module for automated URL discovery, and resolved several user-facing bugs impacting data accuracy and navigation. Infrastructure maturity advanced with database schema version control and a formal technical specification document.
## Highlights
- **Delivered the WordPress integration plugin**, enabling WordPress sites to automatically synchronize their URL inventory with Equalify for scanning, including multisite support and review by the RED team
- **Completed the site crawling module**, allowing users to automatically discover and import URLs from a site via the audit builder interface
- **Implemented server-side CSV export** for the blockers table, enabling users to download complete blocker data regardless of table pagination
- **Added admin-settable co-brand logo**, allowing institutional partners to display their own branding alongside Equalify without hard-coded customizations
- **Resolved multiple user-facing bugs**, including pagination errors, inconsistent link targets, and incorrect URL count displays, improving overall platform reliability
## Key Metrics
| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| Tasks completed | **31** |
| Tasks remaining | 56 |
| New tasks added | 29 |
| Completion rate | **53%** |
| Code commits | **156** |
| Repositories with activity | **5** |
| Issue edits (activity) | 60 |
| Source issues | 5 |
*(Note: 29 new tasks were identified and added during the reporting period, which accounts for the expanded backlog.)*
## Completed Work
### Team
- Completed the external linked CSV feature for audit URLs, enabling WordPress plugin integration and just-in-time URL synchronization at scan time.
### T. Daniel
- Verified that the email delivery fix implemented in the previous period is working correctly in production.
- Added URL count display to chart tooltips and the scans table for improved data visibility.
- Completed the WordPress plugin based on the prior technical review, delivering core functionality and addressing all RED team requested changes.
- Created the Service Request standard operating procedure documentation.
- Reviewed user documentation prepared by Amanda and provided technical notes.
- Completed the accessibility survey.
- Resolved an inconsistent link target bug affecting navigation behavior.
- Fixed a pagination bug in the platform interface.
- Implemented an admin-settable co-brand logo feature, allowing institutional partners to configure their own branding.
- Corrected incorrect URL count displays in audit views.
- Fixed the blocker detail page performance issue where navigation to an individual blocker showed a "not found" state before loading.
- Coordinated with the RED team on deployment of the WordPress integration plugin.
### C. Aitken
- Coordinated with Blake and Dean to separate PDF-related costs from core Equalify costs in the AWS account and established cost ceiling guidance.
- Implemented database schema version control and Hasura metadata version control.
- Built a Chrome extension prototype for accessibility testing workflows.
- Completed the Equalify Tech Spec sheet documenting the platform's technical architecture.
- Completed the crawl module, including: adding a crawl button to the audit builder, setting up a Lambda function for crawling via Sitemapper, creating an API endpoint, and providing a toggleable URL table in the audit builder for selecting discovered URLs.
- Improved the monthly report generation script with references to previous reports for style consistency.
- Coordinated with Amanda regarding involvement in monthly report review and release processes.
## Notable Events
- **Apr 7** (B. Bertuccelli-Booth): A design decision was made to implement configurable co-brand logos rather than hard-coding the UIC logo, leading to the admin-settable co-brand logo feature.
- **Apr 22** (stefinp23): Received positive stakeholder feedback on the development reports, noting their helpfulness and the team's efforts in producing them.
## Risks & Blockers
- **Anomalous PDF scan metrics:** The scanStarted metric is reporting unusually high numbers of PDF scans, and PDF-heavy audits are showing elevated blocker counts that require investigation.
- **Duplicate Blocker ID / namespace collision:** Short ID generation is producing collisions, which may cause scans to appear incomplete. Under active investigation.
## In Progress & Upcoming
### Development
- Align language used in the WordPress plugin and Build Audit screen to ensure consistency and emphasize synchronization functionality. *(T. Daniel)*
- Improve blocker filter categories for more intuitive navigation. *(T. Daniel)*
- Resolve the duplicate Blocker ID and namespace collision issue. *(C. Aitken)*
- Add a scanning state indicator to the Audits screen so users can see when scans are in progress. *(T. Daniel)*
- Update documentation with new site onboarding workflows for crawling and WordPress integration. *(C. Aitken)*
- Deploy crawl and WordPress integration features to staging. *(C. Aitken)*
- Work with Amanda to update user-facing documentation. *(C. Aitken)*
- Investigate anomalous PDF scan metrics and elevated blocker counts. *(C. Aitken)*
- Explore WebAIMee-style LLM integration for improved individual blocker descriptions and remediation guidance. *(T. Daniel)*
### Operations
- Correct the production URL configuration for Hasura. *(C. Aitken)*
- Include the crawl and CSV integration features in the CI/CD pipeline. *(C. Aitken)*
- Get a clean AWS account provisioned for infrastructure separation. *(C. Aitken)*
- Coordinate with Helen and Michael on documentation workflow and communications responsibilities. *(C. Aitken)*
- Divide Infrastructure and FOSS sprint tasks among team members. *(C. Aitken)*
### Newly Identified Work
- Establish a versioning system and strategy for the platform, potentially using semantic versioning with standardized commit message formats. Document the new system and surface the current version in the user interface.
- Evaluate the addition of UX performance metrics to monitor frontend responsiveness. *(T. Daniel)*
- Contact WebAIM regarding potential integration partnership. *(T. Daniel)*
## Development Activity
### Contributor Activity
| Contributor | Commits |
|------------|--------|
| A. Roper | 65 |
| T. Daniel | 37 |
| D. Isaac | 24 |
| C. Aitken | 18 |
| B. Bertuccelli-Booth | 12 |
### Active Repositories
| Repository | Commits |
|-----------|--------|
| [equalify-docs](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify-docs) | 93 |
| [equalify](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify) | 43 |
| [equalify-hub](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify-hub) | 9 |
| [equalify-wp-integration](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify-wp-integration) | 8 |
| [equalify-reflow-reader](https://github.com/EqualifyEverything/equalify-reflow-reader) | 3 |
### Recent Commit Highlights
- Developed the WordPress integration plugin end-to-end, including core synchronization functionality, multisite-safe CSV token generation, a clean uninstall script, options persistence fixes, sync versioning, and all changes requested by the RED team review.
- Implemented server-side CSV export for the blockers table with total blocker count display, ensuring users can export complete datasets rather than only the visible page.
- Fixed audits table sorting for the status column to ensure correct ordering behavior.
- Redesigned the Equalify Hub homepage as a product showcase with a dedicated dashboard page, Reflow beta banner, consolidated roadmap within the about page, and streamlined site navigation.
- Added support for nested documentation structure in the Hub, including dedicated section list pages for the user guide and nested directory support for Reflow documentation.
- Improved Hub color contrast and semantic markup to meet accessibility standards.
- Established the Reflow Reader repository with project documentation describing the hackathon context and participation guidelines.
## Planned Sprints
### Infrastructure Sprint (1-2 weeks)
This sprint focuses on making Equalify deployable by any institution. The team will select an infrastructure-as-code framework, create build and deployment scripts for provisioning all required components (Lambda functions, databases, and their relationships), determine a deployment strategy for pushing code updates to provisioned infrastructure, and produce technical documentation covering provisioning, deployment, and a developer-oriented 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.
### Onboarding Features Sprint (1-2 weeks)
This sprint will deliver site onboarding capabilities, including a Lambda-based crawling service for new sites, integration of onboarding features into the audit builder, and a CSV-based user import feature.