Enrique Sánchez 8:26 pm on May 14, 2020
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: May 15, 2020

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, May 15, 2020, at 15:00 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, May 15, 2020, at 14:00 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

Timi Wahalahti 12:26 pm on May 11, 2020
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Enrique Sánchez 11:50 pm on May 8, 2020
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Accessibility Team meeting notes – May 8, 2020

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.

Announcing the first WordPress Accessibility Day!

The first ever WordPress Accessibility Day was just announced this week:

Starting at 18:00 UTC on October 2nd, 2020, the WordPress Accessibility Team will sponsor a 24-hour online event focused on WordPress and Accessibility. If you want to learn about the future of accessibility in WordPress, join us for 24 hours of mind-expanding online learning!

Speaker submissions will be opening soon, so keep an eye on wpaccessibilityday.org.

A big round of applause to all the folks who’ve been working hard on planning and putting together this event. Please spread the word!

Review 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/ PR

The team reviewed and discussed this Gutenberg PR that implements the roving tabindex pattern on 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. toolbar.

We agreed that this is a welcoming change but expressed concerns on how a change like this could be communicated to end-users.

Open floor

@afercia shared the work he’s been doing on #50105. Feedback and help testing the patch is needed.

#meeting-notes

Enrique Sánchez 8:53 pm on May 7, 2020
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: May 8, 2020

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, May 8, 2020, at 15:00 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, May 8, 2020, at 14:00 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

Joe Dolson 4:05 pm on May 7, 2020
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Announcing the first WordPress Accessibility Day!

Starting at 18:00 UTC on October 2nd, 2020, the WordPress 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 will sponsor a 24-hour online event focused on WordPress and Accessibility. If you want to learn about the future of accessibility in WordPress, join us for 24 hours of mind-expanding online learning!

We anticipate opening for speaker submissions within the next two weeks, where we’ll be looking for speakers who want to explore a wide variety of topics, including

  • theme accessibility,
  • 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 accessibility,
  • accessibility testing,
  • writing and managing accessible content,
  • the future of WordPress accessibility,
  • WordPress and ATAG (Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines),
  • current and upcoming accessibility standards (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/. 2.2, WCAG 3), and
  • assistive technologies.

Follow along at WP Accessibility Day, where we’ll be publishing our call for speakers, call for sponsors, and all sorts of information about our plans for the day!

To learn more, join members of the organizing team for an online panel discussion of WordPress Accessibility and the event on Thursday, May 21st, 2020 – Global Accessibility Awareness Day. We’ll chat about accessibility, talk about the event, and answer your questions.  Share your questions on our Twitter account @WPAccessibility or send an email through the WP Accessibility Day contact form. Time and venue yet to be determined – sign up for the WP Accessibility Day email list to be notified about the panel!

Do you want to help organize WordPress Accessibility Day? We can use more volunteers! We’re currently meeting every Wednesday at 16:30 UTC in the #accessibility-events 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 – join us if you want to help!

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Enrique Sánchez 5:30 pm on May 1, 2020
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Accessibility Team meeting notes – May 1, 2020

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.

WCEU 2020 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/. tasks

In preparation for WCEU 2020 contributor day, the team continued discussing the tasks that need to be addressed before the event. Most of these tasks already have an owner and progress is being made.

5.5 work updates or requests for help/feedback

@ryelle, @joedolson and @nrqsnchz continued the discussion on the Accessible Color Schemes project. It was decided to start creating mockups for high and low contrast, and light and dark color schemes.

Open floor

@joedolson made the team aware of a request to present at WP Campus Online about the status of the Gutenberg accessibility audit performed last year.

#meeting-notes

Enrique Sánchez 4:00 pm on April 30, 2020
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: May 1, 2020

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, May 1, 2020, at 15:00.

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

The Accessibility Team bug scrub will be held on Friday, May 1, 2020, at 14:00.

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

Enrique Sánchez 6:15 pm on April 24, 2020
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Accessibility Team meeting notes – April 24, 2020

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.

Progress report on 5.5 work

The team has been making progress towards our planned work for the 5.5 releaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software.:

@afercia noted that some of the 5.5 TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets might need to be pushed to the Editor and Media teams and that we need to know who the release focus leads are for those teams so we can refer to them.

@ryelle created this Trac ticket to move forward the discussion around creating new color schemes. @ryelle, @joedolson, and @nrqsnchz agreed to continue the discussion after the meeting.

@audrasjb has a patch ready for the WP-Admin fly-out menu ticket and is working on a first draft for the Alternate List Tables work.

Anyone interested in getting involved on any of these projects is encouraged to reach out. Your help is needed.

WCEU2020 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/. team tasks

We continued discussing the tasks that need our attention for Contributor Day during WordCamp Europe 2020. We’ve set up a spreadsheet in order to keep track and review progress.

@ryokuhi, @joedolson, and @nrqsnchz have signed up to help facilitate during the day. We still need more folks to sign up in order to be able to more comfortably cover all the hours needed.

We also discussed how many working groups we expect to need and also be able to handle. We agreed that two working groups divided by level of experience contributing to WordPress would be a good plan.

Folks interested in helping on any of these tasks are welcome to chime in too!

Open floor

@ryokuhi reminded everyone that the WordPress Accessibility Day website will be going live next week.

Next WPAD planning meeting will be held on Wednesday, 29 April at 16:30 UTC.

#meeting-notes

Timi Wahalahti 9:52 am on April 24, 2020
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Enrique Sánchez 6:43 pm on April 23, 2020
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: April 24, 2020

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 24, 2020, at 15:00 UTC.

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

The Accessibility Team bug scrub will be held on Friday, April 24, 2020, at 14:00 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