Accessibility meeting agenda for 24 May 2019

This is the proposed agenda for the weekly 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 Friday 24 May 2019 at 15:00.

  • WordPress 5.3 main Accessibility Team goals:
    • Team focuses
    • Media tickets
    • 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/ issues
  • Gutenberg open floor discussions
  • Quick review of the “alt text decision tree” Handbook document

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

The Accessibility bug scrub is intended to be held on Friday 24 May 2019 at 14:00.

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).