Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: 2 August 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 2 August 2019 at 15:00 UTC.

  • Support Navigation and Edit Mode
    (for reference, see the related pull request on Gutenberg GitHub repository)
  • Improving the Accessibility Team feedback 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/ issues and pull requests
  • WP Accessibility Day – organizing team & next steps
  • Feedback on Theme Review Team’s post about supporting keyboard navigation
    (for reference, see the related draft post)
  • Open floor

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

The Accessibility bug scrub is intended to be held on Friday 2 August 2019 at 14:00 UTC.

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).