joesimpsonjr 11:06 pm on August 4, 2024  

Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: August 2, 2024

These are the bi-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 or see the full meeting schedule.

Updates from the working groups

NOTE: Only groups that provided updates are shown below.

Meta Working Group: @elblakeo31 shared this update the impacts the 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. working group for discussion/comment:

  • He’s performing an automated accessibility scan on learn.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/. I just delivered a list of all the elements missing alt text in Learn. Anyone can request any automated testing from me. We’ve also been tuning Equalify, based on what we’ve learnt from our WordPress volunteering. Here’s an article he wrote about that: https://equalify.app/helping-wordpress-org-become-accessible/

Electing two new Make WordPress Accessible Team Reps

We received two nominations – @nhrrob and @rcreators – who expressed interest in assuming the roles and nominated themselves on our Call for Team Reps post. There were no other nominees and @joesimpsonjr moved to ratify them as our new Team Reps effective September 1st. @joedolson confirmed that this is acceptable as process. Joe Simpson will follow through on onboarding the remainder of the month. Welcome to Rishi and Nazmul Hasan Robin!

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