alexstine 9:53 pm on April 15, 2021
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: April 16, 2021

This is the proposed agenda for the weekly AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team meeting on Friday, April 16, 2021, 16:00 UTC.

  • Planning additional bug scrubs and meetings for WordPress 5.8 release.
  • Updates from working groups
  • Open floor

If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post.

The Accessibility Team bug scrub will be held on Friday, April 16, 2021, 15:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. (requires registration).

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Stefano Minoia 8:30 pm on April 15, 2021
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: April 9, 2021

These are the weekly notes for the AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.

Quarterly community updates

Every three months, all Make WordPress teams are asked to update the community at large about what they are doing, so that everyone is aware of what’s going on. All updates are collected in a post published in a specific section of the WordPress website.

Previously, discussion about what to write in the post was left to the team reps, but @alexstine and @ryokuhi agreed that bringing it in the wild would be good for the team.

During the meeting, the team discussed about the challenges and big wins for the team in the preceding three months. @ryokuhi offered to integrate the points brought up during the meeting with the team goals for the next release and to write the report. Updates for the first quarter are now available on the Make website.

Updates from working groups

GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/

@annezazu and @poena shared a few updates regarding Gutenberg and Full Site Editing

Full Site Editing updates

Gutenberg highlights

Documentation

@Jill Mugge has been working on accessible patterns and antipatterns.

Media

@joedolson reported that everybody on the media team has been very busy in the last month, and nobody has done work on any open tickets yet.

Design

@sarahricker had been away for a few weeks and no one else was able to report.

MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.

@joedolson reported that there were no updates regarding meta.

Themes

@poena left a note after the meeting.

  • There was no progress regarding the workshop for reviewing accessibility-ready themes
  • There was no progress regarding adding more end user information about what accessibility-ready means
  • The list of approved themes waiting for accessibility-ready review is empty, but the Michelle live theme is waiting for it

General

Bug-scrubs are still focused on clearing the Awaiting Review queue as much as possible. As soon as the 5.8 release date is confirmed, focus will move to tickets in the 5.8 milestone (currently, there are 15 of them).

Open floor

@paaljoachim asked for general and accessibility feedback about two Learn WordPress tutorials he wrote. This lead to opening an issue to fix the contrast problem in the Code Block CSS in the Learn WordPress repository.

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alexstine 8:29 pm on April 8, 2021
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: April 9, 2021

This is the proposed agenda for the weekly AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team meeting on Friday, April 9, 2021, 16:00 UTC.

  • Quarterly community updates
  • Updates from working groups
  • Open floor

If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post.

The Accessibility Team bug scrub will be held on Friday, April 9, 2021, 15:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. (requires registration).

#agenda

alexstine 2:27 am on April 6, 2021
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: April 2, 2021

These are the weekly notes for the AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.

Update from working groups

  • Design: no update.
  • Docs and Patterns: added some notes around tables.
  • General: no update.
  • GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/: no update.
  • Media: no update.
  • MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.: no update.
  • Themes: no update.

Feedback requested

The following items need feedback.

Open floor

Add testing instructions to Gutenberg GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ pull request template that way instructions are always provided on how to test a change.

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Hauwa Abashiya 6:02 pm on April 1, 2021
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: April 2, 2021

This is the proposed agenda for the weekly AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team meeting on Friday, 2 April 2021, 16:00 UTC.

If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post.

The Accessibility Team bug scrub will be held on Friday, 2 April 2021, 15:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. (requires registration).

#agenda

alexstine 6:21 pm on March 26, 2021
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: March 26, 2021

These are the weekly notes for the AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.

Update from working groups

  • Design: no update.
  • Docs and Patterns: @Jill Mugge has done some work on the Pattern Library, specifically the Alternative text pattern as well as fleshing out more topics under Content patterns. @azhiyadev has started to work on the accessibility handbook.
  • General: no update.
  • GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/: A few updates
  • Media: lots of planned work but no progress at this point.
  • MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.: no update.
  • Themes: no update.

Open floor

  • Next week @azhiyadev will run the accessibility team meeting and @alexstine will cover the bug scrub.
  • Even though more clocks are changing due to daylight savings time, bug scrub and meeting times will stay the same.

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alexstine 1:27 am on March 26, 2021
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: March 26, 2021

This is the proposed agenda for the weekly AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team meeting on Friday, March 26, 2021 at 16:00 UTC.

  • Updates from working groups
  • Open floor

If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post.

The Accessibility Team bug scrub will be held on Friday, March 26, 2021, at 15:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. (requires registration).

#agenda

Stefano Minoia 11:30 pm on March 25, 2021
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: March 19, 2021

These are the weekly notes for the AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.

Review of accessibility team’s goals for WordPress 5.8

Following the pubblication of the call foor WordPress 5.8 Accessibility Team’s goals and the decision to postpone the discussion by two weeks, a general discussion took place about some of the proposed goals for next release.

WordPress 5.8 will be out in July 2021, but the exact date hasn’t been set yet.

Here are the main takeaways of the discussion.

  • GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ development will be followed more in detail. @ryokuhi volunteered to review the page about Gutenberg testing to update it and create a routine to test if users relying on assistive technologies (for example, using only keyboard navigation and/or screen readers) would be able to perform standard tasks in the blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. editor.
  • Also, Full Site Editing (which will land in the next release) will be a priority. @critterverse agreed to try to keep up with the FSE outreach experiment by testing using assistive technologies, making sure there’s some accessibility coverage and reporting to the team with the results.
  • Work on documentation will be central even during the next release. @Hauwa Abashiya reported about a discussion regarding the possible audience for the accessibility handbook, which includes both creators (designers and developers looking for resources about accessibility) and contributors (who want to contribute to the project itself). As such, the documentation working group will focus around:
    • the about page (what the team does, the different working groups)
    • the Getting Started or Get Involved chapter (how the team works, onboarding, ways you can contribute, etc.)
    • resources for creators (tools, pattern library, etc.)

It’ll be up to each working group to keep moving towards these (and other) goals during the release cycle, so all contributors are invited to join a working group and become a representative for a working group, in case there isn’t one.

Open floor

@Jill Mugge friendly reminded all WordPress contributors to always add the alternative text to images in posts.

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alexstine 9:20 pm on March 18, 2021
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: March 19, 2021

This is the proposed agenda for the weekly AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team meeting on Friday, March 19, 2021 at 16:00 UTC.

If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post.

The Accessibility Team bug scrub will be held on Friday, March 19, 2021, at 15:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. (requires registration).

#agenda

alexstine 9:03 pm on March 17, 2021
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: March 12, 2021

These are the weekly notes for the AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.

Meeting time change following Daylight Saving Time introduction

Meeting and bug scrub times will stay the same. Bug scrub at Friday 15:00 UTC and meeting at Friday 16:00 UTC. The day will stay the same on Friday.

Improvement of onboarding for new contributors

Here is a list of ideas that the accessibility team came up with to improve the onboarding process for new contributors to the accessibility team.

  • Add information about the bi-monthly meeting for new core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org. to the accessibility handbook
  • Ease participation to tickets and issues with good-first-bug and needs-accessibility-feedback labels: make them more discoverable and improve how to ask for feedback from team members about them
  • Add a Slackbot welcome announcement when someone joins the #accessibility channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.
  • Update the “Get involved” chapter in the accessibility handbook and make the handbook more friendly for new contributors (discussion will happen in the #accessibility-docs channel on Slack)

Open floor

@annezazu informed the team that Taylor Arndt very kindly joined a Zoom meeting to share some feedback around the Full Site Editing experience when using screen readers. Here’s a quick summary of issues to be aware of (she’ll include some of these in a recap post she’s doing for the FSE Outreach Program’s second call for testing):

@annezazu also flagged the following items:

Here are a couple other issues brought up by the team.

If you have time to review/contribute to the new accessibility standards, your feedback is welcome and much appreciated.

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