Team meeting summary December 14, 2015

The last month, especially after 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. US we’ve got a lot more people contributing to the wpa11y team.
Welcome Robert Jolly, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Cheo Walker, Sakin Shrestha, Barret Golding, Adam Soucie, Scott Mann and Rachel Vasquez!

We want to keep all the new people involved, not make them feel lost or left out and leave.
Therefore we decided to form working groups, assign one lead and divide the new people in the workgroups, so they know what to do and who to ask for help/work. People can jump in and out of groups as work ebbs and flows.

Working groups

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.

  • Task: Find 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) issues, write and discuss tickets on core trac and code patches for WordPress core.
  • Lead: Andrea Fercia
  • Contributors: Joe Dolson, Jeffrey de Wit, Sergey Biryukov, Cheo Walker, Trisha Salas, Adam Soucie, Robert Jolly, Rian Rietveld.

Documentation

  • Task: Write documentation about accessibility in our Handbook and on other relevant places on 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/
  • Lead: Trisha Salas
  • Contributors: Joseph O’Connor, Barret Golding, Richard Senior, David Kennedy, Rachel Vasquez.
  • Joe Dolson and Robert Jolly volunteered to review written content.

Theme team

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.

  • Task: Find accessibility issues, write and discuss tickets on meta trac and code patches for the website WordPress.org and WordPress.tv
  • Lead: Joe Dolson
  • Contributors: Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Barret Golding, Trisha Salas

WordCamp themes

  • Task: Review of the WordCamp themes and help with fixing the accessibility
  • Lead: David Kennedy
  • Contributors: Jeffrey de Wit, Adam Soucie

Test team

  • Task: Test the accessibility of new and exsisting functionallity in and for WordPress core, at the request of the other workgroups and teams
  • Lead: Rian Rietveld
  • Contributors: > 75 volunteers, with different kind of assistive tecnology and/or accessibility expertise

Accessibility code standards for core

During the WCUS community summit in Philadelphia we made a start with accessibility code standards for core.
Joe Dolson put a concept for the a11y code standards together.
Please look at the concept and comment on it.

Documentation

Barret and Trisha are working on a good outine for the documentation, lots of good ideas, work in progress, more next week.

Core

The last #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)-headings ticket is #26601 Inappropriate content in headings on admin screens.
Joe Dolson will look into this, make a decision on how to solve this issue. On the WCUS contributors day we discussed this and the outcome od this was: First get the link out of the heading, without changing the visual design. And after that is committed, start the discussion of removing it conpletely from the post-new.php / post.php pages.

Next big project for 4.5: Color contrast ratio of the colors used in the WordPress Admin.
The official colors to use are on make.wordpress.org/design/handbook/foundations/colors/
Related ticket: #31234 closed Update wp-admin default colors.

We need to review them and fix contrast ratios for text and background lower than 4.5.
The tickets we file for this will be labeled #a11y-color.

Also related:
#34957 #a11y-focus: Standardizing the handling of :focus and :hover
Any feedback on this ticket for the project is appreciated by Adam Soucie

Meta

Ideas for meta.tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets from Barret:
1. the skip-to link needs to be closer to.
2. the skip-to link-text should be visible on focus.
3. the headings hierarchy is far from W3CW3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.https://www.w3.org/. standard.

Idea from Morten: Start a campaign to get WordCamp speakers to caption their own talks.

To-do for next week

Read and comment on Accessibility code standards for core.

Tickets that needs work/discussion
If you want to work on core, grab one of these tickets and help solving them

  • #31195: Add a user-friendly way to preview site responsiveness in the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.
  • #34625: wp-login.php site title link points to wordpress.org
  • #31195: Add a user-friendly way to preview site responsiveness in the Customizer
  • #35029: Remove title attributes: the revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. limit in the Publish box
  • #35050: Remove title attributes: 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 Cards
  • #35064: Remove title attributes: options-general.php
  • #35076: Remove title attributes: the Featured ImageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. postbox
  • #34957 #a11y-focus: Standardizing the handling of :focus and :hover
  • And every other ticket that focusses accessibility

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