Warning, you're not going to like what I'm about to say.
This type of lame, limp, soft lip-service "we're doing something about it" whilst doing nothing response is entirely what I've come to expect from money-making scames like the IAAP. With their overpriced "memberships", meaningless "certifications", and toothless positions on so many accessibility issues, their unwillingness to alienate the scam artists in our midst is hardly a shock. Particularly when they make $$$ off said dirtbags.
They are as big a BS scam as W3Schools, riddled with ignorance, apathy, and out to do nothing more than mislead the gullible.
Worse, they promote the predatory notion that "courtesy" and soothing syrup words are the be-all end-all of professionalism, whilst not giving a single flying purple fish if the work is professional whatsoever. Everything I've ever seen from them is apologist marketing double-talk for the sole purpose of keeping nubes and rubes signing up for memberships, bullshit certifications. It's like your typical scum-bucket religions trying to keep buns in seats and coins flowing through coffers.
In the past six or seven years I've run across a great many folks with "certifications" form them who didn't even know what legible colour contrasts even meant, how to use numbered headings properly, or why PX metric fonts and layout were bad; leaving me to wonder just what the **** they test for in their overpriced nonsensical certs. Again, shadows of the bullshit W3Schools peddles to the gullible, just dialed up to eleven.
It is hardly a shock that their response would be "oh we're looking at it but we don't want to offend them" because scam artist bullshit is their bread and butter. Why would they turn on their own kind?
We shouldn't be plastering on a fake smile, and be "respectful" to predators, scam artists, and just plain criminals. They have forfeit that right. These "overlay" peddlers are lowlife scum, TREAT THEM AS SUCH!
But no, treating bunko peddlers as the lowlifes they are isn't "respectful" enough. So much for integrity!
Sorry if that seems unduly harsh, but I'm far beyond trying to be polite to bullshit peddling scam artists and the people who spew endless excuses for them. It is NOT a professional standpoint to enable these snake oil doctors by screaming "wah wah, somebody used some harsh words".