With:
- the updated 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)-ready requirements for themes,
- work in progress on the documentation,
- our plans for the contributor 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 WordCamp 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. Europe.
The new accessibility-ready requirements for themes
The main work in May on wpaccessibility.org was adding and updating the new accessibility-ready requirements for themes, by Amber Hinds (@alh0319) and Joe Dolson (@joedolson):
Joe Dolson posted about this new requirements in Accessibility-Ready Requirements Updated.
This means that all themes with the tag accessibility-ready need to be reviewed again and for this Amber organized a GAAD Theme Accessibility Testing Workshop. Many people joined in to learn how to test a theme.
Work in progress on the documentation
Jessica Lyschik (@luminuu) opened the issue Enhance accessibility-ready guidelines with classic vs. block theme information and examples how to achieve the guidelines for extending the info with a guideline with technical details on how to implement the requirements for both the tester and the theme developer who might have to fix these things.
Rian Rietveld is working on cross linking the topics in Standards and Best practices with the new accessibility-ready guidelines, and making way of adding resources uniform cross the site.
Rian is also working on updating the pages about how to test for accessibility.
Annelies Verhelst (@anneliesjenl) wrote an update of the page about accessibility legislation worldwide, in Standards and best practice. So much has changed the last few years. This update is currently in review.
Anne-Mieke Bovelett (@annebovelett) is working on updating and extending pages about the Accessibility for your business, in Start with Accessibility.
WordCamp Europe contibutor day
In preparation for WordCamp Europe, Rian makes an inventory of the accessibility info on wordpress.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/ and its sub sites. She plans to talk to the docs and meta 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. team about how to make the info about accessibility available in a workable way while avoiding duplicate content.
Also, we want your opinion about the info on wpaccessibility.org and perform user testing on the site. So hop by the accessibility table if you want to test or discuss the WP Accessibility Knowledge Base.
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