Rian Rietveld 9:15 am on September 4, 2017
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Accessibility work at WordCamp Nijmegen

@tacoverdo announced at the start of 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. Nijmegen that the Twitter hashtag #WCNMGN needed to be capitalised for screen reader users. And a lot of people did, thank you!

Work on the Contributors day

  • @choongsavvii worked with @jrf on the keyboard 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) of the main menu in 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/. @obenland pointed out that this part is not open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. and it’s can’t be fixed by changing the CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. only. To be continued.
  • @travel_girl worked on the new Handbook
  • @rianrietveld was table lead and gave an intro to a group of people about the basis of Accessibility
  • @maartenleenders and @jaapwiering worked on tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets labeled accessibility. Finding it hard to choose a ticket, as most tickets are discussed for a long time and it’s difficult to get into this fresh in such a short time as om the contributors day.

Ideas from the Hallway tracks

Automated 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) testing

This topic came up again and again. @jrf (Juliette Reinders Folmer) gave a talk “The Biggest WP Core Patch Ever” about trac ticket 41057, upgrading coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. to the coding standards. And after that talk I had many discussions about integrating accessibility in all the automated testing we do. For core, but also for themes in the repository and for 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 and theme development in WordPress.

After the Handbook is in good shape, I think we need to pick this up as focus for the Accessibility Team. This will probably be begin next year. @jrf and @spacedmonkey want to help and there are probably more people and companies we can ask to help.

Which tickets are easy to pick up

Before a WordCamp contributors day we need a better list of tickets and issues for developers to work on. That have a very specific clear solution and not a debate of years without conclusion.

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