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Gutenberg 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/ progress
@afercia: The Gutenberg team has started working on some of the UI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. issues, however many of the accessibility 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 still there with no great progress. There are still about 100 issues open, 12 of which are breaking for the merge milestone.
We discussed the accessibility of a new feature proposal: Modal appear animation and where actually amazed that there is still time to develop such extras when there are so many show stopping open issues and bugs left to fix.
WordPress 4.9.9
As noted in the WordPress 4.9.9 Minor Release Roadmap, one of the goals is:
We’d also want to focus on fixing issues in accessibility. There’s lots of ways we can drastically improve the experience for a lot of people with minor effort.
Basically in this release we will try to knock out a bunch of small issues that have been overlooked. @rianrietveld will contact @schlessera about what the best approach will be for this.
To see which of the 150 open tickets can be milestoned 4.9.9 we opened a spreadsheet with a list of them all. Andrea, @audrasjb, @travel_girl, @bamadesigner and Rian will work on this. We will select tickets with some direction of a solution, that seem like an easy fix and that don’t involve major design decisions.
Jean-Baptiste will also look at the accessibility fixes that have already been merged in trunk (which means 5.0) but they’re not in 4.9.8 and won’t be in 4.9.9.
We need to consult Alain if this is something he wants to address too for 4.9.9.
To-do list
- Test Gutenberg new features Spotlight Mode and Full Screen mode for accessibility issues
- Find an accessible project management tool
- Gutenberg AT Manual: Ask for help from marketing team and users of AT
- Handbook: Process feedback at WordCamp 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
- Codex/Develop: Set up a review of the example code in those sections
- Write blogpost about impact new recommendation WCAG 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 AA for WordPress
Next meetings
- Ticket triage for WordPress 4.9.9: September 24, 14:00 UTC
- Team meeting: September 24, 15:00 UTC
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