When only one active team member votes, it’s tough to think there’s much interest in team repping. 🙂

So, here are the results, but the low turnout begs the question of if this is an active team, or if we should be thinking about rolling in to existing groups (like UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. is rolling into the main coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. group and designers will be embedded in all the other teams as well with a central design “interest group” vs a “responsible-for-this-product group”). But before we have that conversation, here are the voting results.

Only three people actually voted.
Please describe your role with 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.

• 1 – I don’t participate yet, but want to
• 1 – I am not currently active in the group, but have been in the past
• 1 – I am active in the group, and have been within the past 3 months
• 0 – I don’t plan to get involved

Describe your accessibility team activity.

• 1 – I contribute accessibility info to the Codex
• 1 – Other Option (“Working on developing accessibility-ready tag for theme directory”)
• 1 – I don’t contribute to the accessibility team activities
• 1 – I participate in pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party and theme reviews for wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ directory
• 1 – I contribute to discussions on the blog
• 0 – I contribute to core patches

Votes:
1st rep – 3 votes for Esmi
2nd rep – One for Joe, one for Graham, one for Andrew Ozz

Neither Esmi or Graham voted. Esmi also proposed that she step back to the support role in the previous thread about team reps. The comment in that thread by Graham made it sound like he equates accessibility team with core accessibility. In short, it doesn’t feel particularly teamy up in here. An active team should have enough going on that each week there’s stuff to report. That’s the team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. job — to write the weekly reports on activity and issues facing the team.

Given the givens, my inclination is to ask Esmi to remain the point of contact for this group, and once we’re past the winter holidays, to work out what exactly falls within the scope of this group/what the product it’s responsible for is, and go from there to a decision around whether this is in fact a distinct project team or whether it’s an interest/skills group that contributes to multiple project teams (like design will be). If it’s decided then that it is in fact a distinct project team, we’ll figure out what to do about the lack of participation in the team rep voting re 2nd slot. Sound okay?

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Hello, 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! It’s time to vote for team reps to communicate on behalf of the group to the other contributor groups. While there’s been some talk (mostly from me) about possibly rolling accessibility into the main coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. group, plugins group, etc. rather than segregating it, that’s still a discussion, not a plan. So for now we need to make sure this team is at the table.

Esmi has been the acting rep. You get 2 slots. These folks will be responsible for reporting on the progress of the group to the other team reps via weekly updates, as well as occasional chats and such. If you haven’t seen the spiel on one of the other team blogs about how team reps/voting/terms work, the longer explanation is after the jump.

Note: It should be people who want the responsibility. Anyone interested in being a team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. should leave a comment saying as much so people know who they can/should vote for. Voting is open until December 15, and results will be posted here once voting closes.

Go vote!

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