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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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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

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Cyndy Otty 2:25 pm on February 21, 2013
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IRC Meeting Summary: 20 Feb. 2013

As evidenced by our small group at yesterday’s 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., I want to first remind you all that we could very much use new members! Whether you are a developer and very technical or merely a writer with special needs, we would certainly welcome you to join us. Anyway, despite our numbers and lack of a formal agenda, our main discussion was on two topics that will be our primary focus presently.

Custom Menus

As the trac ticket concerning design changes to the Custom Menu has been closed, we discussed centering 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) discussion around the reopened trac ticket #14045. The proposal is for an accessibility mode screen alternative like that which the Widgets page utilizes. We also have a post devoted to this topic here as well for your consideration and comments.

Twenty Thirteen

Feedback is strongly requested from an accessibility standpoint on the new default theme Twenty Thirteen, which is currently being developed. You can check out the theme here at the Twenty Thirteen demo site and please report any feedback you have.

The full log of yesterday’s IRC meeting can be found here at #wordpress-ui logs for February 20, 2013.

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esmi 12:05 pm on February 14, 2013
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IRC Meeting Summary: 13 Feb 2013

As per last week, we had a very lively and interesting meeting with the main focus being Custom Menus (again) and the use of hidden skip links. Thanks to all who took part — especially a couple of UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. team members. The inter-team discussion is invaluable as it allows us to get a better perspective on the overall coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development philosophies as well as the current development cycle goals. I think the more we learn about the development process, the more effective we can become at offering practical, effective, suggestions at the right times.

User Testing

@accessiblejoe will be looking at developing videod user tests for the CSUN conference based on the list provided by @GrahamArmfield and the alter discussion on IRC:

  • Logon and interpret dashboard and toolbar
  • Publish new post including use of headings, bold etc. Add categories and tags.
  • Edit post to add media (image or pdf) with caption, alt text etc.
  • Update user options including setting new password
  • Use Theme CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. to change Site Title and background colours etc.
  • Creation of a simple custom menu; re-ordering of menu items including a single item sub-menu.
  • Logging out of WordPress.

We hope that any videos obtained will help the core development teams to gain a better understanding of some of the issues faced by disabled users.

Front-end 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)

@joedolson is still working on an extension of the Theme Check pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party as part of the optional accessibility audit for all themes submitted to 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/. He now has a modified version of the plugin available for testing and is actively looking for feedback.

There was also a lively discussion of “hidden” links — including both skip links and the current log out link (which is effectively hidden in a dropdown) — and balancing link visibility with the need to avoid a cluttered interface.

Finally, a reminder to all readers that, as a group, we are still stretched pretty thin and would welcome new members — both technical developers and non-technical disabled authors.

#wordpress-ui log for February 13 2013

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esmi 3:07 pm on February 12, 2013
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IRC Meeting Agenda: 13/02/13

Is there anything we need for tomorrow’s meeting agenda?

Or should we just make this a “report & update” meeting?

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esmi 1:10 pm on February 7, 2013
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IRC Meeting: 6 Feb 2013

Thanks to everyone who managed to make the IRC meeting on #wordpress-ui yesterday.  We had a very productive discussion and — despite the entertainment provided by way of my terrible iPad typing — took the first steps towards organising the group along more formal lines.

@GrahamArmfield will be looking after TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.. Time permitting, he will be monitoring the existing 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)-tagged tickets and taking the lead on the submission of new Trac tickets to cover issues such as the problems within the current custom menus admin area. So if you are thinking of raising a new Trac ticket, can you raise the subject here first? That way, we should avoid unnecessary replication.

@joedolson expressed a vested interest in the editorial flow area but, for the time being, will be concentrating on front-end accessibility via the proposed theme accessibility audit and an extension to the current theme submission checks.

@AccessibleJoe will take the lead on user testing videos so that we can build up a library of video resources to support coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. developers.

@esmi will continue to take lead on documentation (liaising with @Siobhan and @DrewAPicture) as well as working with @lessbloat and other members of the UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. team to try to develop in-house user accessibility testing.

We are, however, still stretched pretty thin. So if you would like to get involved, we would love to hear from you. Those of you with the skills to create patches will be particularly welcomed by the UI Team who are currently overhauling the Custom Menus and Post Revision areas.

#wordpress-ui log for February 6 2013

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esmi 4:02 pm on February 6, 2013
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IRC: Proposed Schedule

Venue: #wordpress-ui
Server: irc.freenode.net or via freenode web chat.
Time: Wednesdays, 20:00 UTC

Meetings should take no more than 1 hour — possibly less. If anyone is available today, I should be around at that time.
First official meeting will be February 13.

First orders of business:

  1. Define this group’s role in the overall development of WordPress
  2. Look at intra-group organisation as a possible way to circumvent that “totally overwhelmed” feeling.
  3. Discuss the development of semi-formalised, pan-disability, user testing

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esmi 9:42 am on January 25, 2013
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IRC Meetups

Most of the other WordPress groups have weekly meetings via IRC. Do you think this would be viable option for this group too? Does anyone have any difficulties accessing IRC?

If we did have regular meetups, I’m assuming weekdays would be best — for half an hour or so between 19:00 and 21:00 GMT?

Thoughts

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