Time for me to be honest.
I hate backlogs.
Just loathe them.
People look at them like they're some holly list or a strategy. It's a graveyard! A dumping ground where every audit finding, every complaint, every "we should fix this someday" gets thrown in. And that huge list just sits there, growing. Nobody's picking what matters from it. Everyone's just collecting new things in there.
That massive accessibility backlog creates lots of noise. Your priorities get buried under tickets from two years ago that have already lost all their context. But you think you're on top of it. You're not!
What, you're grooming that list? That's not product management, it's just stupid admin work. That's time you could spend talking to users with disabilities. Instead, you're instead reshuffling Jira cards around.
A huge accessibility backlog just tells me you're not sure what to do next. It just pushes you to close tickets, to trim that backlog. And closing tickets and improving access are two very different things.
Keep the next few high-value items. Make real decisions. Delete the rest.