The AccessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (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 shares their expertise to improve the accessibility of WordPress coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and resources.
Ask general questions during the Team Office Hours every Wednesday at 14:00 UTC in the accessibility channel in SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
Members of the Make WordPress AccessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (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 are volunteers working on improvements to accessibility in WordPress for people with disabilities.
Not everybody contributing to WordPress is technically minded, and everyone who is connected with accessibility can contribute to the Accessibility team. We particularly want to hear from people who are regular users of assistive technologyAssistive technologyAssistive 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 (AT), as your perspective is especially valuable testing accessibility fixes for WordPress.
The Accessibility team includes coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. committers, developers, testing specialists, content writers, and organizers; it could include you!
Each new version of WordPress brings accessibility improvements. The more discussion and testing we can do, the faster that rate of change can be.
If you want to contribute to WordPress, there are several ways. It’s not just writing code! Join one of our working groups outlined below by contacting the point person in the #accessibility channel on SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
Coordinate with the WordPress Design team to monitor what kinds of design changes are happening in WordPress and help contribute to keeping accessibility at the forefront in design.
Monitor the broad accessibility of WordPress core and any areas of WordPress not covered by another working group. Monitors and contributes to tickets in the core Trac. The general team is primarily developers and testers.
Writing patches for accessibility tracTracTrac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets
Give code examples for trac tickets (the expected output)
Help with the discussion & testing of possible solutions
We write documentation about accessibility in our Handbook and contribute to Accessibility documentation wherever needed around WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/.
Provide links to good resources and verify the existing links
We review GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/ accessibility-related issues, write and discuss tickets on GitHub and write code patches. We need people who know how to test for accessibility and/or use assistive technology to test existing and new functionality.
Monitor changes to the Editor, both in Full Site Editing and in BlockBlockBlock 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. Editor
Track goals for future versions of the editor and design changes
Keep the team in the loopLoopThe Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. when major changes are planned
Track media accessibility issues, write and discuss or patch tickets on core trac for the WordPress.org core repo. Provide opinions on handling of video and imagery across WordPress.org.
MetaMetaMeta 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 the infrastructure of WordPress.org and its related sites, including Learn, TV, OpenVerse, and many others. Report and track accessibility issues, discuss tickets on the meta trac or in the WordPress meta Github repositories.
For any other questions and/or suggestions go to #accessibility channel on Slack and pingPingThe act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” any of the contacts mentioned above.
We have a number of communication channels where you can reach out to us and contribute your thoughts and ideas. Choose the one that works best for you.
Updates on our meetings and discussions are posted to our blog. WordPress developers also post tips and questions here. To reply to posts you’ll need to log in to wordpress.org. If you don’t have a wordpress.org username you can register at the WordPress Support page.
If you’re a Twitter/X user, you can contact us via the @WPAccessibility account.
Come and help make WordPress more accessible for everyone. And if you’ve got some ideas about how we could better reach out to people, we’d love to hear those too.
The Accessibility Team has both a Contributor badge and a Team badge. The Contributor badge is for anybody who has helped improve the accessibility of any part of the WordPress core ecosystem, including the WordPress.org properties.