Monthly Archives: June 2018

Rian Rietveld 6:28 pm on June 26, 2018
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Team meeting June 25, 2018

Meeting

Meeting time: Monday 15:00 UTC
Transcript in Slack

Recap 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 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/.

There was a good collaboration with the Gutenteam and 3 issues were discussed or even solved (read the full recap).
It’s a good set up for other WordCamp, it’s also good to have two lists: a Gutenlist and a WPlist.

ATAG statement

We need to have an ATAG statement for the WordPress project. @joedolson will work on that.

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/. 2.1

After a short discussion we leave the accessibility statement of WordPress as is (Conform to WCAG 2.0) for now. We will start to inform people what WCAG 2.1 is and what is useful to implement, create awareness first. @rianrietveld will write a blogpost.

Open floor

Rachel Cherry (@bamadesigner) dropped the idea of having a combined WPCampus and a WP 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) partner event in 2019. Sharing resources and venue. We all think it’s a great idea to explore further and help.

To-do:

  • Rian: write a post about WCAG 2.1
  • Joe: write an ATAG statement

#accessibility-team-meetup

Rian Rietveld 12:14 pm on June 21, 2018  

Overview of the Gutenberg accessibility merge proposal issues

At this moment there are 13 issues open with the label Merge Proposal: Accessibility

These are the most complex issues with high priority. That doesn’t mean that the other 70 open issues are trivial, they also need to be addressed to make 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/ work for everyone.

If you want to help out, please select one of the “Issues that need work, review, feedback, discussion”. Andrea Fercia (@afercia) is the lead for the Gutenberg 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, contact him in GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ with the issues if you need more information.

Issues that have an owner and are actively worked on:

Issues that need work, review, feedback, discussion:

Issues to do just before merge or after the feature freeze:

Rian Rietveld 9:49 am on June 21, 2018  

Contributor day at WordCamp Europe 2018

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) tables where divided in two parts as always:

  • people who wanted help understanding 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) or needed a review of their work
  • accessibility experts that wanted to help out

But now we also had developers from the 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/ and Yoast team who helped with the list of GitHub issues that still needs work.

Gutenberg work

Andrea Fercia led the Gutenberg work.

  • Thanks to Adrian Roselli we came to a decision for: List block and screen readers: greatly inconsistent behavior. Basically it was decided to treat the List 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. as all the other blocks with an editable area.
  • We also discussed to try something new for: Simplify and streamline keyboard navigation through blocks. That is: trying the switch between navigation and edit mode using a visually hidden button for the switch (still to experiment)
  • Jorge Costa started looking into Publishing Flow accessibility but there’s still lot to do there, so any testing and feedback is very welcome.
  • Then the Review the usage of RichText multiline / aria-multiline issue was closed, thanks to Jorge.
  • Issue Fix the blocks aria-label was solved by Irene Strikkers and Enej Bajgoric.
  • We worked on refactoring of the landmarks to make them static and make sure all content is inside the landmarks

Meetings with other teams

Sami Keijonen and Rian Rietveld talked to the marketing team about how to promote/ integrate our handbook best practice section in the other teams documentation.

Reviews

  • Rian did a super quick review of Jetpack and showed Enej Bajgoric how to use some test tools like aXe.
  • Adrian Roselli reviewed and helped improve the Minimal Share Buttons with Milen Petrinski-Gonzo

Thanks all of you so much for joining the 2 a11y tables.

Rian Rietveld 8:04 am on June 21, 2018
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Change in the WP accessibility team meetings time/day

Hey all,

We are changing the day for the bug scrub and team meeting back to the Mondays.

The reason is that Rian has her weekly day off on Wednesday and we didn’t see an increase of attendees when we changed from the Monday to the Wednesday.

So the new day will be Monday.

Time:

  • bug scrub at 14 UTC
  • team meeting at 15 UTC

Starting Monday June 25th.

See you then!

#weekly-meetings

Rian Rietveld 9:57 am on June 12, 2018  

List of work for the WCEU’18 contributor day

Work to be done on 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/ and coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. at the 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 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/. in Belgrade.
I tried to make a mix of multiple teams discussion, 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 and stuff to fix.

Gutenberg

Gutenberg issues that absolutely need to be addressed before the merge proposal are labeled Merge Proposal: Accessibility and High Priority.

Has patch, needs review/merge

Needs an a11y expert

Overall, check the issues, starting with the old ones, if they still apply to the lastes version of Gutenberg. Maybe some issues are solved automatically by the changed codebase.

Screen reader issues:

Dragon Naturally sSpeaking issues:

JAWS issues:

Needs a Gutenberg / ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. developer

Needs Core Feedback

Needs Design Feedback

Needs Doc team feedback

Issues to be closed?

 

WordPress core

    • All 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 are have the focus Accessibility
    • Milestone 4.9.8
    • Milestone 5.0
    • Good first bugs, for if you start contributing
    • Needs designer
    • Needs developer