The Accessibility 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 is officially accepting new Team Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. nominations. As announced in previous team meetings, @audrasjb will be stepping down as he now will be focusing more of his time on the Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team.
We’ll continue with the tradition of having two Team Reps on the team, so I (@nrqsnchz) will continue on the role, and this new person will be sharing responsibilities with me.
If you’d like to learn more about what it means to be a Team Rep, this article goes into detail about the responsibilities. But in summary:
Team Rep is a leadership role that is mostly administrative in nature; it is not a Lead role. Letting go of the Team Rep title is not a loss of status, just a handing off of responsibilities. Someone who is a leader in a team can lead whether they are doing the team rep job or not.
If you would like to be considered for the role or would like to nominate someone, please add a comment below. We’ll be reviewing nominations during our team meeting next week. Depending on the number of submissions, we’ll define if we’ll need to hold a round of voting.
And lastly, on behalf of the team, I’d like to thank @audrasjb for all the help and contributions provided so far. We are looking forward to continue working with you.
