Krupa Nanda 6:35 am on March 11, 2026
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: March 12, 2026

This is the proposed agenda for the bi-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 Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 08:30 PM GMT+5:30

Updates from the working group

  • Documentation
  • General
  • 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/
  • Themes

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 is every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC, held in the #accessibility channel on the Make 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/ (registration required).

#accessibility, #agenda

Krupa Nanda 10:11 am on March 7, 2026
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: February 26, 2026

On Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:30 PM GMT+5:30, a team meeting started in #accessibility kicked of by Krupa Nanda. You can read the full transcript or see the meeting agenda.

  • Table Leads for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia 2026
    • 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 is looking for Table Leads for WordCamp Asia 2026 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.
    • Contributor Day will take place on April 9, 2026, at the Jio World Convention Centre.
    • We may consider having two table leads: one onsite and one supporting remotely.
    • If you’re attending and willing to take on this role, please fill out the application form shared 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/ channel. Feel free to pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @krupajnanda for more details.
    • Remote support is also welcome.
  • The test team has prepared the doc to help the featured covered in 7.0 release. Feel free to take the help from Help test WordPress 7.0 post.

Working Group Updates

Documentation

The team removed most of the Accessibility Handbook content from the Make Accessibility site and replaced it with pointers linking to the new documentation. This change was made to avoid the need to maintain two separate sets of documentation. The remaining content focuses on information about how contributors can get involved and contribute to the Accessibility Team.

General Updates

@joedolson shared many updates, with a few items still being worked on.

  • Tickets that already have patches but have not yet been committed should ideally be either committed or punted within the week.
  • Early testing of patches is highly valuable and helps move things forward more quickly. Overall, the project is in good shape, although there are still a few tickets that need to be completed.

Gutenberg

@joedolson shared that 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/ has introduced many changes in this release, making testing during the betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. phase especially important.

  • The top priority should be testing the output of any new blocks, as those are the most difficult to modify after release, though there are also several new interfaces to review.
  • Contributors are encouraged to explore the release features and test them thoroughly, including navigating without a mouse, checking control names, and enabling visible label features. General accessibility testing guidance is available, and since each feature may require a different approach, specific testing instructions may be provided when needed. Some features may already have their own testing instructions available.

Themes

So far no updates here.

Please note that the next meeting will take place at 15:00 UTC. The following two meetings will be scheduled at 19:00 UTC due to a timing conflict with the WordPress 7.0 release. After the release, we will return to our regular meeting time of 15:00 UTC. This change is temporary.

#accessibility, #meeting-notes

Rian Rietveld 8:59 am on March 2, 2026
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WP A11y Docs update February 2026

This update informs you about:

  • new content;
  • changes in the current team handbook;
  • plans for March.

New content on wpaccessibility.org

  • The way of navigating the content is now less depending on the main menu. For a better user experience, also for mobile views.
  • We added the Reading guide, vistors now can find content by role or expertise instead of by topic only.

Changes in the current team handbook

The Accessibility Team Handbook now only addresses the info about 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 itself and for the accessibility documentation we now point to the Standards and best practices in the WP Accessibility Knowledge Base. Since redirects for popular pages are not possible, some subpages will be left in place to guide users to the updated content.

Plans for March ’26

  • Finish the documentation about Focus management, in the sections Frontend code and Web forms.
  • Start with updating and extending the documentation for the section Content and images.
  • Transfer the Accessibility team handbook to GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/.

#wp-a11y-docs

Nasim Miah 10:52 am on February 25, 2026
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: Feb 26, 2026

This is the proposed agenda for the bi-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 Thursday, February 26, 2026, 15:00 UTC

  • WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 is out
  • BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 2 release this week on the 26th
  • Help test WordPress 7.0

Updates from the working group

  • Documentation
  • General
  • 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/
  • Themes

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 is every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC, held in the #accessibility channel on the Make 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/ (registration required).

#accessibility, #agenda

Krupa Nanda 7:25 am on February 16, 2026
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: February 12, 2026

On Thursday, February 12, 2026, 15:00 UTC, a team meeting started in #accessibility kicked of by Nasim Miah and later continued by Krupa Nanda. You can read the full transcript or see the meeting agenda.

  • WordPress 7.0 Release Party Schedule
    • WordPress 7.0 is scheduled for release on April 9, 2026. The proposed release party schedule has been published.
    • BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 is scheduled in this week.
    • Enhancements need to be committed or moved to a new milestone before then.
    • Release parties will mostly take place on Thursdays (note: in the past they were typically on Tuesdays).
  • Table Leads for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia 2026
    • 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 is looking for Table Leads for WordCamp Asia 2026 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.
    • Contributor Day will take place on April 9, 2026, at the Jio World Convention Centre.
    • We may consider having two table leads: one onsite and one supporting remotely.
    • If you’re attending and willing to take on this role, please fill out the application form shared 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/ channel. Feel free to pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @krupajnanda for more details.
    • Remote support is also welcome.

Working Group Updates

Documentation

@rianrietveld shared an updates for docs part.

  • A new menu and navigation structure has been implemented on wpaccessibility.org to improve scannability and navigation.
  • The reading guide is nearly complete and helps visitors find relevant documentation more easily.
  • Work is in progress on documentation for accessible focus management (to be added under web forms and frontend code).
  • The team discussed updating the Accessibility Handbook to reference the new documentation (best practices section).
  • Since redirects for popular pages are not possible, stub pages will be left in place to guide users to the updated content.
  • Team members generally agreed that referencing the updated documentation is the right move.
  • Feedback on the new docs is welcome.

General Updates

  • Beta 1 for WordPress 7.0 is in this week only.
  • The team believes work is on track.
  • Bug scrub this week will focus on items needing decisions before Thursday.
  • If you’d like to follow accessibility-related progress in 7.0, refer to the Current Release Progress page.

Gutenberg

  • The new Tabs 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. was reviewed and several issues were identified and the editor team is handling the reported issues promptly.
  • No major new accessibility concerns are currently known for the upcoming release, though continued testing is encouraged.
  • The list of open issue for tabs block.

Themes

Open Floor

A question was raised about accessibility standards for color schemes in the admin area (specifically under the “User Profile” section).

Clarification:

  • Default themes are required to meet WCAGWCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/. standards.
  • Alternate themes (opt-in) are not required to meet WCAG.

NOTE: If you’d like to have a topic added to the agenda for our next meeting, please mention it in the comments on an upcoming agenda.

#accessibility, #meeting-notes

Krupa Nanda 6:27 pm on February 11, 2026
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: Feb 12, 2026

This is the proposed agenda for the bi-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 Thursday, February 12, 2026, 15:00 UTC

  • WP A11y Docs update
  • WordPress 7.0 Release Party Schedule (To be published)
  • WordCampAsia 2026 : Looking for table lead

Updates from the working group

  • Documentation
  • General
  • 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/
  • Themes

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 is every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC, held in the #accessibility channel on the Make 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/ (registration required).

#accessibility, #agenda

Rian Rietveld 7:27 am on February 3, 2026
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WP A11y Docs update December 2025 and January 2026

This update informs you about:

  • new documentation;
  • user feedback on the content structure;
  • WCAGWCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/.-EM audit on the website;
  • plans for February.

New documentation

Amber Hinds and Joe Dolson wrote and published documentation for the new accessibility-ready tag guidelines for WordPress themes:

The documentation about web forms is almost ready, new is Provide help,
with:

User testing

From user testing by Dutch frontent developers, we got ideas for a better organisation of the content structure. We are working on less items in the main menu and better in-page navigation to related content. That way content is better findable and can be found in multiple ways, not only by the search option or the main menu.

WCAG-EM audit

The website wpaccessibility.org got an official WCAG-EM audit, the site passes the audit for WCAG 2.2 AA compliance. We created an accessibility statement for the website.

Work for February ’26

  • Finish the reorganisation content
  • Add a reading guide
  • Finish all documentation about forms, next is “Focus management in forms”.
  • Start with the documentation for the section Content and images
  • Rian will give a presentation about the WP A11yAccessibility 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) Docs project at WPLDN in London on February 26.

All feedback on the documentation is very much welcome.

#accessibility-ready, #wp-a11y-docs

Jonathan Desrosiers 8:18 am on February 1, 2026
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Nasim Miah 3:10 am on January 30, 2026
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: January 29, 2026

On Thursday, January 29, 2026, 15:00 UTC, a team meeting started in #accessibility facilitated by Nasim Miah. You can read the full transcript or see the meeting agenda.

  • Exciting News: The WordPress 7.0 Release Squad is assembled!
  • The WordPress 6.9 release retrospective is closed. Thank you everyone who took time to share their feedback! Because community input plays an important role in improving future release cycles!
  • A detailed post outlining the upcoming PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php support changes has been published. WordPress 7.0 will drop support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3, in line with long-term maintenance and security goals. Contributors are encouraged to review the post for full details and timelines.

Working Group Updates

Documentation

Work continues on expanding and improving 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) documentation on wpaccessibility.org. @joedolson and @alh0319 did a great job. Recent highlights include:

  • New documentation published on providing help for people filling out forms, shared by Rian Rietveld:
    https://wpaccessibility.org/docs/topics/forms/help/
  • Documentation related to web forms is nearly complete.
  • Feedback was received on the menu and navigation structure of the documentation site, and improvements are currently in progress.
  • An updated menu and navigation setup will be published soon.

General Updates

@joedolson shared updates related to the upcoming WordPress betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. period. The deadline is approaching, and enhancements need to be committed ahead of the beta. Additional help is welcome.

Design

@joedolson shared that design updates to WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. are in progress and will require accessibility review. While the basics are expected to be fine, there may be many details to check due to major CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. changes and the size of the admin interface.

Themes

@joedolson shared that he and @alh0319 presented updated accessibility-ready guidelines to the Themes team on Tuesday. The Themes team will review the updates and provide feedback within the next two weeks.

NOTE: If you’d like to have a topic added to the agenda for our next meeting, please mention it in the comments on an upcoming agenda.

Thank you, @joedolson for the pre-publish review.

#accessibility, #meeting-notes

Nasim Miah 4:00 am on January 29, 2026
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: Jan 29, 2026

This is the proposed agenda for the bi-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 Thursday, January 29, 2026, 15:00 UTC

Updates from the working group

  • Documentation
  • General
  • 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/
  • Themes

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 is every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC, held in the #accessibility channel on the Make 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/ (registration required).

#accessibility, #meeting-notes