WP Accessibility Day: Planning meeting 3

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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 shares accessibility expertise across the project to improve the accessibility of WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and resources.

WordPress targets WCAG 2.1 at level AA as the standard for development.

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For support related to WordPress & accessibility, visit the WordPress Accessibility forum.

You can also ask questions during Accessibility Team Office Hours every Wednesday at 14:00 UTC in the accessibility channel in 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/..

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) Day planning continued on Tuesday, 22 January, 2020

Slack transcript

Updates from Community Team

No existing guidelines about support, but we can provide a list of needs & they can let us know how they can help. Dates are up to us.

@nataliemac volunteered to start developing a budget

@xkon volunteered to offer advice from WP Translation Day experience.

@audrasjb Learned that we need to secure hosting & domain name for ourselves, and will touch base with sponsors to provide this.

Design phase

Design team is established, will meet before the next meeting to start planning. Will use WP Accessibility 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/ team to coordinate development.

Date Commitment

Committed to September 26th. Some possible events we want to avoid collision with aren’t announced, so we can’t make plans around those.

Timing will be 24 hours, midnight to midnight UTC.

Next meeting:

The next meeting will be Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 16:00 UTC