On Thursday, September 18, 2025, at 15:00 UTC, a team meeting started in #accessibility facilitated by @krupajnanda. You can read the full transcript or see the meeting agenda.
Biweekly Team Meeting Time Update
The bi-weekly chat meeting time has changed to alternate Thursdays at 15:00 UTC, and the meeting calendar is also updated.
Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.9
The bug scrub schedule for WordPress 6.9 has been prepared for its upcoming release.
Announcing the Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Program Team
The recent launch of the Core Program team, which is an expansion of the previous Core AI Team program model.
Updates from working groups
Documentation
@rianrietveld reported that the team has been working to make wpaccessibility.org ready for contributions. They have copied all 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) content from the current handbook into the new site and created placeholder pages for new content. @1fixdotio has implemented a preview option for Pull Requests so contributors can review proposed content without a local install A local install of WordPress is a way to create a staging environment by installing a LAMP or LEMP stack on your local computer..
@rianrietveld also suggested including more people to work on the content of the documentation, and provides a list of Todo issues for people to contribute to, but cautions that contributors should only work on topics they know well, as AI is not yet very good at accessibility.
Aminul will work on the migration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. of the current handbook to a new GitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repo, accessibility-team-handbook
Only the Accessibility Team-related info will stay in that handbook.
General
@joedolson reported that @alh0319 raised several new tickets that were reviewed in the bug scrub last week.
Gutenberg
@joedolson has raised comments on the Icon block Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. and Block Commenting in Gutenberg 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/, and needs to review the Tab block and Accordion block.
Media
@joedolson reopened the discussion on whether to import alt text from image metadata, noting the pros and cons both.
Meta
Updated the Current Release tracking document.
Themes
@alh0319 will be working on converting existing documents into markdown and adding them to a repository in the WP Accessibility organisation so that we can coordinate with other docs processes.
NOTE: If you’d like to have a topic added to the agenda for our next meeting, please mention it in the comments on an upcoming agenda.
Thank you, @muddassirnasim, for the pre-publish review.
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