Meeting and planning make everyone feel productive, but mean very little in the way of progress.
Everyone sits around nodding about the importance of alt text for images, colour contrast and keyboard navigation. Yet months later, the product remains impossible to navigate with a screen reader.
It's a bureaucracy of good intentions with minimal results.
Real progress happens when you actually sit down and do the work. It's that developer spending an afternoon fixing the form labels. It's that designer adding accessibility annotations to mockups. It's the tester taking the time to try the product out with their keyboard. All this accomplishes more than months of weekly planning sessions.
It's real when you stop talking about theoretical improvements and start testing with actual users who depend on accessible design.
Maps are great. But they won't move your car.
You need to follow the route you choose with more than your finger along the line to get where you wanted to in the first place. You know exactly where you need to go. But your finger-traveling expertise won't mean much until you actually start driving.