Accessibility Team meeting notes for February 7, 2020

These are the weekly notes 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 that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.

Discussion on the accessibility status of the 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/ sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme.

Discussion continued from last week on the topic of the accessibility status of the Gutenberg blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. inspector (sidebar).

The team had a very productive discussion that addressed the longstanding accessibility issues, recent improvements, and suggestions for solutions.

The team agreed to work together on a proposal that described the problem, suggests needed structural changes, and provides visual concepts.

Once 5.4 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. is out, @joedolson, @afercia, and @nrqsnchz will collaborate to create the proposal.

Status update on 5.4 tickets

@audrasjb shared the status of the accessibility tickets in the 5.4 milestone in TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.. At the time of writing, there are 36 in the milestone, of which

• 5 are closed as fixed
• 4 are open and tagged for commit

Because Beta 1 is planned for February 11, the next a11yAccessibility 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) bug scrub (February 10, 2020, 17:00 UTC) will most likely focus on punting tickets for future release.

There are still a few tickets that could be worked on and still make it in. Help on moving these forward is much appreciated.

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