Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: August 28, 2020

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, August 28, at 15:00 UTC.

• WordPress 5.5 release post-mortem
• Team goals and priorities for WordPress 5.6
• 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:
  • Continue discussion of Add screen reader announcement to last block in list
  • Full Site Editing: Add new sidebar for navigating between templates, posts, and pages without leaving the editor
  • The image block’s editing tools break the toolbar keyboard accessibility
• Open floor

If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” the team in the #accessibility 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/. channel.

The Accessibility Team bug scrub will be held on Friday, August 28, at 14:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress Slack (requires registration).

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