Joe A Simpson Jr 2:41 pm on August 4, 2023
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: August 4, 2023

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 4, 2023, 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 will also be held on Friday, August 4, 2023, 15:00 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

Joe Dolson 2:09 pm on August 4, 2023  

Testing Matrix

The goal 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 for August 4th, 2023 is to run our meeting in Matrix to give it a test for accessibility in various contexts. For the purposes of testing, we’ll want to have a diverse collection of devices and modes: high contrast, screen readers, etc., to get different perspectives on what works best.

Online App

Open the Element web app.

Change the home server from ‘matrix.org’ to ‘community.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/’

Log-in using the WordPress.org single sign-on.

Use in browser.

Embedded Chat

Go to https://make.wordpress.org/meta/chat/

Behavior is unpredictable depending on your current interaction state with this page. You may see an error and need to back up a couple of steps until you get a sign in option. 

Follows the same sign-in process through SSO; only gives access to the one embedded room.

This method will probably not be very useful for us in testing, but worth looking at.

Apps

There are a lot of different apps for Matrix. Browse all apps.

Choose one and install it. You’ll need to set your server to https://community.wordpress.org and log-in. 

  • Element
  • FluffyChat
  • Syphon
  • Quadrix
Joe A Simpson Jr 8:11 pm on July 17, 2023
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: July 21, 2023

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, July 21, 2023, 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 will also be held on Friday, July 21, 2023, 15:00 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

Joe A Simpson Jr 8:11 pm on July 17, 2023
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: July 7, 2023

These are the 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.

Updates from the working groups

Only groups that provided updates are shown below.

Team Updates

  • Gutenberg: @annezazu who provided this update for the Gutenberg working group: Passing on this post hot off the press: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/07/03/real-time-collaboration/ Otherwise, everything is all about 6.3! Trying to triage as much as possible to get issues into the 6.3 board (like this: * https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/52254 or this:https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/52253). Following the instructions for the Help Test WordPress 6.3 post will go a long way.
  • General: @joedolson shared the following updates for a couple of working groups: Joe committed or punted all tickets scheduled for 6.3 last week. Most remaining open issues are at risk, but punting to 6.4 isn’t the end of the world. On themes, I’ve got @Maja Benke connected to @kafleg to start her working on accessibility ready reviews

Open Floor

  • No updates to share at this time.

  • NOTE: If you’d like to have a topic added to the agenda for our next meeting, please mention it in the comments of upcoming agenda.

#accessibility-ready, #design

Joe A Simpson Jr 4:03 pm on July 7, 2023
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: July 7, 2023

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, July 7, 2023, 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 will also be held on Friday, July 7, 2023, 15:00 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

Joe A Simpson Jr 10:20 pm on June 16, 2023
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: June 16, 2023

These are the 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.

Updates from the working groups

Only groups that provided updates are shown below.

All Team Updates

  • Media: @joedolson committed the redesign of the admin image editor earlier this week.

  • General: He has punted a number of tickets to 6.4, but have a significant handful that are ready or nearly-ready to commit.

  • Themes: At WCEU, Joe talked to Maja Benke about taking on the task of reviewing themes for accessibility-ready tags, so she’s going to start getting trained in on that task and will interface with the theme review team to help on that. This is important since the theme review team is low on accessibility knowledge right now.

  • 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/: The site editor needs testing; we’re moving in very close to the end of the cycle, and there are a lot of new features that need some attention. Please install Gutenberg and play with all the new features. Particularly look for any focus losses, controls that aren’t working from the keyboard, or focus moves that should happen and don’t (e.g., opening a modal then not being placed inside it).

  • @sabernhardt shared the following 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. team update: Please review the pull request on 4730.

  • @alexstine shared this update for comment: https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins/issues/405 and for async review: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/51126#issuecomment-1594825674

Open Floor

  • WCEU 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) Team Onboarding — At 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/. at WCEU, the team onboarded a few additional people to review 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. output & Maja Benke wrote up a draft of a document for us to post to help people know the process they should follow when testing block output. Will document soon.

  • Is it possible to change our meeting time? — Also, Maja Benke requested that we once again consider changing our meeting time – she would like to attend, but our current time is not good for her. And, honestly, our current time isn’t really good for anybody in Europe – Friday evening is just not a great time for people to attend a meeting. We should give this serious thought. Other team members, like @poena, are also routinely unable to attend. Because we have members in the US Pacific time zone, we can’t move a lot earlier reasonably, but we could change to a different day, so that European attendees aren’t having to start off their weekend with a voluntary meeting…

NOTE: If you’d like to have a topic added to the agenda for our next meeting, please mention it in the comments of upcoming agenda.

#accessibility-ready, #design

Joe A Simpson Jr 6:33 pm on June 15, 2023  

Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: June 16, 2023

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, June 16, 2023, 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 will also be held on Friday, June 16, 2023, 15:00 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).

Joe A Simpson Jr 6:32 pm on June 15, 2023
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: June 2, 2023

These are the 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.

Updates from the working groups

Only groups that provided updates are shown below.

Documentation and General Teams

@joedolson has been focused on scrubbing older 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/ issues in bug scrubs; trying to get some of the early concerns re-addressed and establish status updates and has several patches nearing readiness to commit; awaiting some feedback.

Media Team

@joedolson mentioned needing needing opinions on [#50523] (https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/50523). He’s requested feedback from #design and hoping to get it soon.

Themes Team

@joedolson reviewed three #accessibility-ready theme candidates last week, to help the themes team out. Anyone interested in training on how to review, contact Joe.

Open floor

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. Europe is next week and we talked about 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/.. Also talked about WordPress Community Summit and being invited.

NOTE: If you’d like to have a topic added to the agenda for our next meeting, please mention it in the comments of upcoming agenda.

Joe Dolson 5:14 am on June 7, 2023  

Contribute to Accessibility at WordCamp Europe Contributor Day

What does 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 do in WordPress?

We support the needs of people with disabilities across the entire project. This can range from training and teaching, consulting on specific development projects, testing features, and contributing code to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. With such a broad scope of needs, the accessibility team is always in need of more people to participate.

There’s no need to know code or accessibility to contribute to the accessibility team! An important part of what we do is help developers better understand how they can create more accessible code; so if you’re an experienced developer who wants to know more about accessibility, come chat with us!

If you don’t know code, but want to contribute, we’ve got ways for you to help as well – documentation and testing are always ongoing needs for our team.

What should I do to prepare to contribute?

The WordPress core team has already posted a lot of information on preparing for contributor day, and a lot of that is equally relevant for you. If you’re not a developer and don’t intend to test new code, you may not need to go through the whole process of setting up a local development environment. However, testing upcoming changes in WordPress does require a development environment where you can apply patches and pull requests for WordPress and for 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/.

However, testing isn’t just about new features. The 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/ site itself needs ongoing review and testing, and the code that already exists in WordPress can always be improved.

Find us at 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. Europe!

Both Joe Dolson (@joedolson) and Stefan Minoia (@ryokuhi) will be present to coordinate accessibility contributors at WordCamp EU’s 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/., and we’re looking forward to chatting with you about anything to do with WordPress and Accessibility! We can set you up with a task, answer questions, or start to teach you accessibility testing processes.

See you soon!

Joe A Simpson Jr 6:00 am on May 31, 2023  

Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: June 2, 2023

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, June 2, 2023, 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 will also be held on Friday, June 2, 2023, 15:00 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).