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esmi 1:46 pm on April 26, 2013
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IRC Meeting: April 24, 2013

We had another lively IRC meeting on Wednesday.

3.6 Post Formats

It was previously decided that both the video and audio post formats could benefit from an ability to add links to captions (for videos) or transcripts (for audio files) and some preliminary investigations were started to look at the possibility of submitting patches. However, as there has been some concern about the release schedule for 3.6 and the possibility that Post Formats might be removed from the release, this has been shelved until we hear further.

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#irc, #meetup

esmi 11:01 am on April 11, 2013  

Support Requests

If you post a comment here looking for support regarding your own site, it will be deleted. If you need support, please post on the wordpress.org support forums.

Thank you.

esmi 8:40 pm on March 15, 2013
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WordPress 3.6 alpha Testers

You might want to consider installing the MP6 plugin to get a sneak preview of the new user interface. Thus far, I’ve noted 3 areas of concern:

  1. The contrast on “Collapse Menu” needs to be pushed up a little to #888
  2. Post revision comparisons. Not sure I’m comfortable with red-on-red and green-on-green. At present, the contrasts are way too low at 2.7:1 (heck — even I’m having problems reading the texts).
  3. Ditto the text for inactive plugins on the Plugins page with only a contrast ratio of 2.8:1. And absolutely no way to “highlight” (increase the contrast) on the text without a mouse.

#3-6, #core-2, #ui

esmi 3:02 pm on March 14, 2013
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IRC Meeting: March 13, 2013

We had a little mix-up with the meeting time this week, due to the change to Daylight Savings Time in the US, so this meeting report may be a little shorter than usual.

However, the weekly meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. time remains at 20:00 UTC until the end of the month — when we may review and adjust it. Remember that you can convert UTC time to your local time at Worldtimeserver.com.

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#comment-form, #meetup, #menus, #trac-2

esmi 12:14 pm on March 8, 2013
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Accessibility for Theme Developers: First Draft Complete

I think I’ve finally finished! *gasp* Thank you to everyone who provided earlier feedback and jogged my memory.

Is there anything on the completed page I need to re-word or explain in more detail?

As previously, please post all feedback here rather than on the draft page itself.

#documention, #theme

esmi 4:22 pm on March 7, 2013
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IRC Meeting: March 6, 2013

Another small but lively meeting. We also had the opportunity to welcome our newest member, @shaun_10up – a relatively new coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contributor. I think we’ll be keeping him busy over the next few weeks! 🙂

Custom menus

Thanks to contributions from @lessbloat, @ceo and @quanin, we’re now seeing real, positive, progress on Trac ticket #14045. This greatly increases the chance of WordPress 3.6 being shipped with a more accessible custom menu system. Thank you for all of your hard work on this.

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#comment-form, #irc, #meetup, #menus

esmi 12:00 pm on March 5, 2013
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Accessibility for Theme Developers

As part of the larger WordPress documentation project, I’ve put together a very rough first draft of an accessibility section for the theme developers’ handbook. It still needs a lot of fleshing out as I’m approaching this from the perspective of someone who doesn’t know anything about web 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). So I feel that we need to not only tell theme developers what to do but how and why.

That said, is the draft missing anything major — bearing in mind that we do not want to overwhelm theme developers?

#feedback, #theme

esmi 2:54 pm on February 28, 2013
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IRC Meeting: February 27 2013

As usual, we had a lively meeting. Thanks to all who attended.

Custom Menus

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) of custom menus in WordPress 3.6 and its related Trac ticket continued to be the main topic of conversation. This is undoubtedly going to be a very difficult area to get just right — not only in terms of the coding approach but also due to the problems of ensuring that screen reader users are presented with a meaningful construct when they try to manipulate menu items. Because of this, it was felt that there was a real danger of theoretical discussions taking priority over the development of prototypes. To try and avoid this, @GrahamArmfield and @lessbloat have agreed to take the lead together on developing prototype solutions.

Add Media Panel

@GrahamArmfield recently raised some concerns over accessibility issues within the current Add Media Panel and we decided to progress further with this. @ceo agreed to post a summation of the issues faced by some screen reader users shortly. Some possible new options were suggested such as an ability to tag images and filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. the library by tag or an option to filter the library by upload date. Both may offer some benefits to users trying to locate a specific file in a large library when they are unable to “see” the images in question.

Join Us

Finally, a reminder that we are still a relatively small group of active members (although we have 156 people subscribed to this blog by email). We do need more active members – both technical and non-technical. So do please consider joining the group.

#wordpress-ui log for February 27, 2013

#irc, #meetup, #menus, #twentythirteen

esmi 5:03 pm on February 20, 2013
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Twenty Thirteen

Development on the next default theme — Twenty Thirteen — has now reached a point where our feedback is needed. You can see and use the theme (currently still in alpha) at its own Twenty Thirteen demo site.

Please post all feedback here. If you are using assistive technologyAssistive technology Assistive technology is an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them. Assistive technology promotes greater independence by enabling people to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to, or changing methods of interacting with, the technology needed to accomplish such tasks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology to browse the demo site, please indicate exactly what software you are using — including the version number, if possible.

Come on, people. If you want a truly beautiful example of an accessible WordPress default theme, now is the time to point out any issues and support the theme’s developers.

#a11y-audit, #core-2, #theme, #twentythirteen

esmi 1:41 pm on February 14, 2013
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Post Revision Timestamps

Following a suggestion from @Ryan McCue about making timestamps in post revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. human readable, I’ve set up a test case that uses both human readable and W3C recommended timestamp formats.

All feedback and comments here, please.

#markup, #testing