Nazmul Hasan Robin 5:51 pm on December 2, 2024
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: Dec 04, 2024

This is the proposed agenda for the weekly 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 on Wednesday, December 04, 2024, 15:00 UTC.

Updates from working groups

  • Design
  • Documentation
  • General
  • GutenbergGutenberg 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/
  • Media
  • 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.
  • Themes

New Time for Accessibility Office Hours Meeting

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. Asia 2025 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/. – Table Leads

Open floor

If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post.

The Accessibility Team bug scrub has moved to Tuesdays, 16:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. (requires registration).

#accessibility, #agenda

Rishi Mehta 6:43 am on September 26, 2024  

Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: September 18, 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 Wednesday. This particular meeting was not held. See the full meeting schedule.

Updates from the working groups

NOTE: Only groups that provided updates are shown below.

Gutenberg Working Group: @annezazu for this ‘hefty’ share from the GutenbergGutenberg 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/ working group:

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.

Rishi Mehta 4:37 pm on September 15, 2024
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: Sep 18, 2024

This is the proposed agenda for the weekly 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 on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 15:00 UTC.

Updates from working groups

  • Design
  • Documentation
  • General
  • GutenbergGutenberg 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/
  • Media
  • 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.
  • Themes

New Time for Accessibility Office Hours Meeting

Open floor

If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post.

The Accessibility Team bug scrub has moved to Tuesdays, 16:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. (requires registration).

#accessibility, #agenda

joesimpsonjr 3:51 pm on August 26, 2024
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: August 30, 2024

This is the proposed agenda for the weekly 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 on Friday, August 30, 2024, 16:00 UTC.

Updates from working groups

  • Design
  • Documentation
  • General
  • GutenbergGutenberg 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/
  • Media
  • 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.
  • Themes

Open floor

If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post.

The Accessibility Team bug scrub has moved to Tuesdays, 16:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. (requires registration).

#accessibility, #agenda

joesimpsonjr 3:12 pm on August 20, 2024  

Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: August 16, 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.

General Working Group: @joedolson shared this update for discussion/comment:

  • Lots of progress on patches, but I’ve been really short on time to get them committed. Hopefully will make some progress next week.

Gutenberg Working Group: @annezazu for this ‘hefty’ share from the GutenbergGutenberg 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/ working group:

@joedolson commented:

  • Would like to second @annezazu pointing out of the accordion block as something that should get attention. It’s been a heavily demanded block, and maybe if it goes in we can get ‘accordion’ removed as a search keyword for the details block.

@poena also commented:

  • Yes the “Deprecate comment pagination” issue could benefit from comments from the team. I need to reply back, it is on my to do list.

Media Working Group: @annezazu for this ‘hefty’ share from the Gutenberg working group:

  • @antpb is continuing to work on a PR for the future media library interface, but it’s not ready for reviewing yet; once that’s making more progress, media will need to be a major focus.

Meta Working Group: @annezazu for this ‘hefty’ share from the Gutenberg working group:

  • Joe Dolson will be doing a final 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) review of the Playground block next week, then it should become available for Learn users after that.

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.

joesimpsonjr 6:00 am on August 14, 2024
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: August 16, 2024

This is the proposed agenda for the weekly 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 on Friday, August 16, 2024, 16:00 UTC.

Updates from working groups

  • Design
  • Documentation
  • General
  • GutenbergGutenberg 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/
  • Media
  • 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.
  • Themes

Open floor

If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post.

The Accessibility Team bug scrub has moved to Tuesdays, 16:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. (requires registration).

#accessibility, #agenda

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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joesimpsonjr 1:13 pm on July 29, 2024
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: August 2, 2024

This is the proposed agenda for the weekly 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 on Friday, August 2, 2024, 16:00 UTC.

Updates from working groups

  • Design
  • Documentation
  • General
  • GutenbergGutenberg 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/
  • Media
  • 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.
  • Themes

Call for Team Representatives and Next Steps

New Time for Accessibility Team Meeting

Open floor

If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post.

The Accessibility Team bug scrub has moved to Tuesdays, 16:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. (requires registration).

#accessibility, #agenda

Andrea Fercia 2:17 pm on July 26, 2024  

Accessibility Office Hours Summer break

Due to the summer holidays and the reduced activity during this period, the Accessibility Office Hours scheduled on every Wednesday are canceled for the month of August.

Regular Office Hours will start again in September.

joesimpsonjr 10:29 pm on July 21, 2024  

Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: July 19, 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.

Team Updates

Design Working Group:

Documentation Working Group:

  • Joe also mentioned that @Amber Hinds and the contributors at WCEH spent some time on theme accessibility-ready documentation.

General Working Group:

  • WordPress 6.6 is released. Also, bug scrubs have been continuing; I’ve now got about 30 tickets milestoned for 6.7, so Joe will be getting started on those soon. @afercia has been getting a number of tasks done in GutenbergGutenberg 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/, as well.

Gutenberg Working Group:

  • @joedolson ran the bug scrub this week on Gutenberg issues, and @jeryj made a PR for one of the open issues that we wanted to have available to test conceptually. Here: is the link to the Github PR. This automatically opens the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. panel for blockBlock 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. settings when a block is selected. Currently, the block sidebar stays in whatever mode you’ve selected, which requires you to switch modes if you want to configure blocks. This PR would change that so that the block sidebar auto-switches to be active when you select a block. We want to test this to see whether it makes an easier flow; it might be an improvement, but we’re not really sure. I’m going to try and set up a test environment that can be shared so that I can ask some people to try it out. When I (Joe) do, I’ll post on Make WordPress Accessible.

Themes Working Group:

Work is starting on Twenty Twenty Five, so that’s the biggest new thing. But the progress on the accessibility-ready tag is also moving forward; continuing work as I mentioned earlier, but also some tickets with movement to add information about the accessibility-ready tag in user facing environments in the theme directory.

These two items would really help in letting people know what exactly the accessibility-ready tag means.

Media Working Group:

  • @antpb is working on experimentation for the next generation media library; we discussed it on Wednesday. Nothing else to report there. It’s still in very early stages, but we talked about some long-term goals that we want to think about, so that the media library can be built in a way that would support those features. Things like an in-browser captioning environment, etc.

Meta Working Group: 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. is giving feedback to @elblakeo31, who is getting his process refined, on the following update:

Also, FYI- Looks like there’s a comment on the Alt issue here: https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-main-2022/issues/462#issuecomment-2214176587.

The hardest part is the timing; the scans of the old design are mostly being ignored, because (rightly) they’re going to be redesigned soon.

Open Floor:

@joesimpsonjr will follow up with @nhrob and @rcreators regarding expressed interest in assuming the Team RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. roles and asked Joe for thoughts on procedure and preparing for a vote to make it official. He suggested posting a post for a Call for Team Reps, documenting what is seen as responsibilities to pass on as well. You can use this as a reference https://make.wordpress.org/updates/team-reps/.

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