Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: February 12, 2021

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.

Updates from working groups

• Documentation: updating the existing documents for accessibility standards to provide better guidance. Publishing information about WCAGWCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/. 2.1 changes. Track progress in the WCAG 2.1 WP Update Google Document.
• Media: #47120 will be committed before 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. 3; #50105 will be deferred to 5.8-early. It’s almost there, but it’s a major UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. change that would require a significant push to have ready by Tuesday, and should really sit in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. for longer. Joe Will probably commit as soon as alpha opens for 5.8, however. All media tickets are either committed or already bumped to later.
• Themes: Accessibility Ready tag reviews in progress, a couple days out of the week. Working on developing workshop on Learn WordPress.
• Design: good progress with design/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) joint bug scrub.
• MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.: a Meta TRACTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket worth checking out: Category archives pages : accessibility improvement (HTML)
• General: during the bug scrub, we reviewed the five tickets with milestone 5.7 that are still open. 16 tickets in the milestone have been closed.

Open floor

• WordPress 5.8 is open for development, now is a good time to start coming up with accessibility goals.
• The next Learn working group meeting is being held in #training on Thursday, 18 February 2021, 19:00 UTC.
• @mgifford will be giving a presentation at the DC Drupal meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. group about the accessibility of the new White House website (built with WordPress). If possible, consider attending! Drupal NoVA: 10 Things We Can Learn from the New WhiteHouse.gov on Accessibility

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