Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: January 4th

This is the proposed agenda for 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) team meeting on January 4, 2019 at 16:00 UTC. Due to the holidays season having just passed and little new progress at this point in the new year, the meeting will be mostly an open forum plus just a couple items to discuss:

1. Discuss tickets https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34681 and https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43773
2. Preliminar discussion on new year’s goals and 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/ phase 2 accessibility
3. Open forum

If you have any additional topics to propose, please comment below.

Today’s accessibility bug scrub is cancelled.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. (requires registration).