This week in WPA11y – June 5, 2017

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. Europe

Topics Community Summit (CS):

  • New developments for the the Editor, and how to safeguard it’s 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) – (CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.)
  • Technology version support policies – (Core)
  • How to involve more developers in helping with the accessibility tickets
  • How to proceed with the handbook
  • Addition: Considering the shift towards JS-based interfaces, we should consider to review and update the accessibility coding standards

@joedolson will write up a draft for the updated coding standards, for us to discuss on the CS.

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/.:
All plans are in the Google Doc: List of goals for Contributors day in WCEU.
And the is also a list of a11y tickets to pick from.

Testing

After June 26th we will start testing again. For this patches and plugins will be installed on our test server and given to the test team.

To test:

Next meetings

There won’t be a meeting or bug scrub on June 12th (due to WordCamp Europe).

 

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