IRC Meeting: October 9, 2013

We discussed 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) progress made by @grahamarmfield, @rianrietveld, Bram Duvigneau and others at WordCamp Europe. Rian wrote something about it: http://blog.rrwd.nl/2013/10/09/wordcamp-europe-2013-lessons-learned/

@joedolson and @sabreuse continue to help with the Twenty Fourteen theme.

We discussed communications channels: Twitter account @WPAccessibility, Make WordPress Accessible for public discussions of the group, an email list for prep work, the WordPress Accessible LinkedIn group for public discussions for everyone, and IRC discussions for working meetings. Also discussed was the possibility of creating a Facebook page which the group decided against doing.

@rianrietveld and @atimmer discussed setting up a testing environment and will continue that discussion offline.

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