Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: May 19, 2023

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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 their expertise 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.

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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 here.

Updates from the working groups

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Media Team

Here’s a status update from @joedolson and the Media team:

Patches for #50523 & #26381 are ready and could use testing/opinions. Please try these patches and make comments. These need to go in early to make it into 6.3.

General Team

@joedolson provided the following updates on General Team for discussion:

Feedback on #15631 and #32170 would be appreciated.It is sortable columns and is fairly extensive. All of the tickets are in the "could be ready to commit stage".

Gutenberg Team

@annezazu reported: A few notes — some accessibility testing for the navigation block with the interactivity API: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP4X03/p1684403764422519 Also the 6.3 roadmap is now out in the open: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/05/18/roadmap-to-6-3/ I’m working on a next call for testing and hoping to post today to go through some of the in progress features :heart: Folks are always welcome to participate.

Open floor

@joedolson noted that WCEU is in three weeks and is looking forward to accessibility conversations that will be had there. He’ll be in Athens from June 6-13 and can chat about 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) at any time. He has an interest in bringing people in long term with more teaching about how to contribute to WordPress.

@joesimpsonjr shouted out Design Team’s @chaion07 for his appearance on the WP Tavern podcast about Contributing to WordPress as a non-developer.. He also asked about plans for Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US in National Harbor in August.

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