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Nazmul Hasan Robin 12:59 am on August 28, 2025
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Introducing Accessibility Team Reps for 2025–2026

We’re excited to share 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 Reps for the September 2025 – September 2026 term!
Muhammad Yeasin (@thisisyeasin) and Krupa Nanda (@krupajnanda) will serve as Accessibility Team Reps, and Nasim Miah (@muddassirnasim) will join the team to contribute and gain experience in the role.

This structure will add strong organizational skills while creating opportunities for new contributors to grow within the team.

About our new Team Reps

Muhammad Yeasin (@thisisyeasin)

Yeasin is from Bangladesh and has built his professional career around partnerships, affiliate management, digital marketing, and business development in the WordPress and SaaS ecosystem. He has contributed to the Photos and Polyglots teams, volunteered at multiple WordCamps, served as table lead at several events, organized 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. NEO, and will organize WordCamp Dhaka 2025.

He also co-organizes the WordPress Dhaka 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. chapter and is currently focused on expanding the CampusConnect program in Bangladesh, encouraging students and young professionals to contribute to open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL.. Yeasin is eager to deepen his involvement with the Accessibility team to make WordPress more inclusive for everyone.

Krupa Nanda (@krupajnanda)

Krupa has spent over 7 years focusing on testing, ensuring products don’t just work, but work beautifully and inclusively for everyone. She is currently serving as the Test Team Representative for 2024–2025 and recently led the testing efforts for the WordPress 6.8 release.

Krupa’s journey in the WordPress community includes co-organizing local meetups and WordCamps, volunteering, and speaking at community events. She is passionate about creating seamless, inclusive experiences, where accessibility and usability are central to product quality. As an Accessibility Team Representative, she looks forward to helping build a web that works for all users, regardless of ability.

Nasim Miah (@muddassirnasim)

Nasim is a WordPress developer based in Malaysia with 6 years of experience building websites, plugins, and themes for individuals, companies, and nonprofits. He began contributing to WordPress in 2023, supporting CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., Training, Translation, and Test teams, and has developed custom plugins and themes with a focus on performance, responsiveness, and SEO.

Nasim is active in the community as a mentor in the Training Team Guide Program, organizer of WordCamps, and host of meetups and presentations. He is passionate about accessibility and looks forward to contributing to the Accessibility Team, blending technical expertise and community engagement to help make WordPress more inclusive for everyone.

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Nazmul Hasan Robin 4:13 pm on August 19, 2025
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Accessibility Team Rep Elections – Voting Now Open

Voting Period: August 19, 16:00 UTC – August 26, 16:00 UTC

Nominations 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 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. are now closed. Thank you to everyone who participated in nominating and supporting the process — it’s wonderful to see such engagement. You can see the full list of nominees and their nominations in the Call for Team Reps.

We’ve received 5 nominations:

You can learn more about the nominees in this Slack thread

Voting is now open to select 2 team reps for the next one year. Please cast your vote using this Google Form: Vote Here

Note: You may vote for up to two candidates.

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Nazmul Hasan Robin 10:05 am on August 3, 2025
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Call for Accessibility Team Representatives

The Make WordPress Accessible team is looking for two new Team Reps to step into this important role. Our current reps, @nhrrob and @rcreators, will be wrapping up their term at the end of August after serving for a year. Now it’s time to pass the torch!

What is a 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.?

Ideally, all Make WordPress teams should have two representatives which allows them to share responsibilities, divide tasks, and cover each other when needed.

Team Reps work with other teams across the project, share key updates across all contributor teams, and generally help to support the team as a whole.

  • Team Rep is an organizational role that is mostly administrative in nature; it is not a Lead role.
  • Letting go of the Team Rep title is not a loss of status, just a handing off of responsibilities.
  • Someone who is a leader in a team can lead whether they are doing the team rep job or not.

What to Expect in the Role?

Expectations vary from team to team, but here are some of what to expect:

  • Prepare meeting agenda by requesting updates from 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) working groups;
  • Conduct the team’s bi-weekly meetings on the Make Accessibility 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/. channel; and
  • Document meeting notes and share updates with other teams as necessary

This would be a great opportunity to move the Meeting time to accommodate other time zones around the world, continue increasing participation and incorporate new voices.

Additional information, including orientation topics including the title, responsibilities, team site, current team reps, and your official role can be found on the Team Updates – https://make.wordpress.org/updates/team-reps/ page.

What are our Next Steps?

Are YOU interested in contributing? Just provide a name in the comments section of this post and plan on joining us at our Friday, August 6, 2025 Meeting at 15:00 UTC.

If you would like to be considered for the role or know someone who would be a great fit, you have the opportunity to nominate yourself or others by adding a comment to this post. Remember that, if someone nominates you, but you don’t feel like accepting, you should feel more than free to say no: your nomination be considered only if you explicitly agree.

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joesimpsonjr 3:25 pm on July 24, 2024
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Call for Accessibility Team Representatives

The Make WordPress Accessible team is in need of two Team Reps to assume this role. With @alexstine stepping away in June and @joesimpsonjr at the end of August after almost three years in this role, we are making a Call for 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 Reps.

What is a 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.?

Ideally, all Make WordPress teams should have two representatives which allows them to share responsibilities, divide tasks, and cover each other when needed.

Team Reps work with other teams across the project, share key updates across all contributor teams, and generally help to support the team as a whole.

  • Team Rep is an organizational role that is mostly administrative in nature; it is not a Lead role.
  • Letting go of the Team Rep title is not a loss of status, just a handing off of responsibilities.
  • Someone who is a leader in a team can lead whether they are doing the team rep job or not.

What to Expect in the Role?

Expectations vary from team to team, but here are some of what to expect:

  • Prepare meeting agenda by requesting updates from Accessibility working groups;
  • Conduct the team’s bi-weekly meetings on the Make Accessibility 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/. channel; and
  • Document meeting notes and share updates with other teams as necessary

This would be a great opportunity to move the Meeting time to accommodate other time zones around the world, continue increasing participation and incorporate new voices.

Additional information, including orientation topics including the title, responsibilities, team site, current team reps, and your official role can be found on the Team Updates – https://make.wordpress.org/updates/team-reps/ page.

What are our Next Steps?

Are YOU interested in contributing? Just provide a name in the comments section of this post and plan on joining us at our Friday, August 2, 2024 Meeting at 16:00 UTC.

If you would like to be considered for the role or know someone who would be a great fit, you have the opportunity to nominate yourself or others by adding a comment to this post. Remember that, if someone nominates you, but you don’t feel like accepting, you should feel more than free to say no: your nomination be considered only if you explicitly agree.

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Stefano Minoia 5:00 pm on December 2, 2022
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Call for Team Rep Nomination – December 2022

As usual at this time of the year, we’re opening a call for (at least) one new 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 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.. I’ve been Team Rep for almost two-and-a-half years, which is way longer than usual, and now it’s really time for me to step down. It’s been an incredible journey, I learned a lot, and I’m really grateful to everyone who I got to know during my term.

To learn more about the role, you can check the article about what it means to be a Team Rep. Here are the main takeaways.

  • Team Rep is an administrative role, not a Lead one.
  • Letting go of the Team Rep title is not a loss of status, just a handing off of responsibilities.
  • Someone who is a leader in a team can lead whether they are doing the team rep job or not.

Traditionally, the Accessibility Team has had two Team Reps, which allows them to share responsibilities, divide tasks and cover each other when needed. Since the election of @joesimpsonjr, we switched to having three Team Reps (at least temporarily) to reduce the burden even more.

If you want to be considered for the role or know someone who would be a great fit, you have the opportunity to nominate yourself or others by adding a comment to this post. Remember that if someone proposes your name, but you don’t feel like accepting, you should feel more than free to say no: we will consider your nomination only if you agree.

Nominations review will happen during the meeting on Friday, December 16, 2022, at 16:00 UTC. We’ll decide if and how to manage the voting round, depending on the number of submissions. During the transition period, we will support the new Team Reps to be ready and operational as soon as they feel like it.

If you have questions about the Team Rep role or the nomination process, please feel free to reach out to @alexstine, @joesimpsonjr, or me (@ryokuhi) in the comments or on 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/., either with a Direct Message or in the #accessibility channel.

Props go to @alexstine and @joesimpsonjr for reviewing this post before publication.

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Stefano Minoia 5:30 pm on July 15, 2022
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Call for Team Rep Nomination – July 2022

As announced during the last weekly meeting, we’re opening a call for (at least) one new 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 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.. I’ve been Team Rep for more than two years, which is twice the usual time, but I stayed in the role to support @alexstine and @joesimpsonjr. They are incredibly hard workers, but, right now, they are committed to many aspects of the Team and WordPress, including organizing events such as 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. US and the WordPress Accessibility Day: it would be unfair to leave them alone in the role.

To learn more about the role, you can check the article about what it means to be a Team Rep. Here are the main takeaways.

  • Team Rep is an administrative role, not a Lead one.
  • Letting go of the Team Rep title is not a loss of status, just a handing off of responsibilities.
  • Someone who is a leader in a team can lead whether they are doing the team rep job or not.

Traditionally, the Accessibility Team has had two Team Reps, which allows them to share responsibilities, divide tasks and cover each other when needed. Since the election of @joesimpsonjr, we switched to having three Team Reps (at least temporarily) to reduce the burden even more.

If you would like to be considered for the role or know someone who would be a great fit, you have the opportunity to nominate yourself or others by adding a comment to this post. Remember that if someone proposes your name, but you don’t feel like accepting, you should feel more than free to say no: we will consider your nomination only if you agree.

Nominations review will happen during the meeting on Friday, August 5, 2022, at 17:00 UTC. We’ll decide if and how to manage the voting round, depending on the number of submissions. During the transition period, we will support the new Team Reps to be ready and operational as soon as they feel like it.

If you have questions about the Team Rep role or the nomination process, please feel free to reach out to @alexstine, @joesimpsonjr, or me (@ryokuhi) in the comments or on 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/., either with a Direct Message or in the #accessibility channel.

Props go to @alexstine and @joesimpsonjr for reviewing this post before publication.

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Stefano Minoia 4:00 am on October 30, 2021
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Call for Team Rep Nominations

As announced during the last weekly meeting, all WordPress Teams have been requested to start the process to select the new Team Reps. Since I’ve been 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. for about 16 months now and @alexstine has been in the role for almost a year, this seems like the perfect time for us to step down, so that someone else can take up the role.

To learn more about the role, you can check the article about what it means to be a Team Rep. In summary,

Team Rep is a leadership role that is mostly administrative in nature; it is not a Lead role.
Letting go of the Team Rep title is not a loss of status, just a handing off of responsibilities.
Someone who is a leader in a team can lead whether they are doing the team rep job or not.

Traditionally, 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 has had two Team Reps, which is really useful because it allows them to share responsibilities, divide tasks and cover each other when needed.

If you would like to be considered for the role or know someone who would be a great fit, you have the opportunity to nominate yourself or others by adding a comment to this post. Remember that, if someone nominates you, but you don’t feel like accepting, you should feel more than free to say no: your nomination be considered only if you explicitly agree.

We’ll be reviewing nominations during the weekly meeting happening on Friday, November 12, 2021 at 17:00 UTC. Depending on the number of submissions, the eventual voting round will take place during the following week, with Team Reps being elected during the meeting happening on Friday, November 19, 2021 at 17:00 UTC.

If you have any questions about the Team Rep role or the nomination process, please feel free to reach out to @alexstine or me (@ryokuhi) in the comments or on 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/., either with a Direct Message or in the accessibility channel. Both of us have already agreed to support the new Team Reps during the transition period.

Thanks to @alexstine, who peer reviewed this post before the publication.

November 12, 2021 update

As of today, no one volunteered or nominated someone else as a possible Team Rep. Because of that, during the weekly meeting, the team agreed to extend the deadline for nomitations by one extra week.

We’ll be reviewing again nominations during the weekly meeting happening on Friday, November 19, 2021 at 17:00 UTC.

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Jb Audras 12:47 pm on November 8, 2019
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Agenda for Accessibility Team Meeting: November 8th 2019

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 November 8, 2019 at 15:00 UTC.

  • Move Accessibility team meeting time according to end of daylight saving time
  • New team Representatives for 2019-2020
  • Discuss issues recently raised on accessibility 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/. channel:
    • Twenty Twenty Read more 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. (raised by @poena)
    • Initial focus on 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/ blocks (raised by @gziolo)

If you have any additional topics to propose, please comment below.

The Accessibility bug scrub will be held on Friday November 8, 2019 at 14:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress Slack (requires registration).

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Jb Audras 8:18 am on October 26, 2019
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Accessibility team representatives election for 2020

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 plans to vote for new team representatives for 2020 on Friday 8 November 2019 at 15:00 UTC.

Current accessibility team reps are @joedolson, @audrasjb, and @arush. We last set representatives on October 2018, so it’s been a year with the current reps.

Team reps are responsible for posting agendas, publishing meetings summaries, and generally leading communications inside the team. They coordinate cross-team efforts and they represent the accessibility team within the WordPress project. It’s a set of tasks that needs to happens each week. One challenge of being a team representative is that they do need to keep on top of a lot of things that are simultaneously going on.

Anyone who is an active contributor in the accessibility team can be elected as team representative.

For full information about team reps responsibility, see the related post on Make/Updates.

It’s a one-year term. We must have 2 team reps at least, to ensure duties are shared.

Existing reps are eligible to run for the election; there are no term limits. @audrasjb is still interested but wants to give priority to new people. Same for @joedolson who wants to give more time to his new coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. committer status.

Feel free to comment to ask questions. If you are interested for being an accessibility team representative, please comment this post to nominate yourself to stand for election.

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Rian Rietveld 10:23 am on January 19, 2016
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Summary Team Chat for January 18, 2016

Documentation

@trishasalas and @rachievee have been working to organize the docs and create some new drafts in the handbook. Work in progress.

Tickets

#34780: Updates screen: 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 and Theme tables improvements
We discussed removing the scope from the th and td first and then think of a way to set up the layout, not in a table but in another, more semantic way.

#34625: wp-login.php site title link points 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/
We need to research if themes and plugins would break if the title attribute on the logo is removed. Maybe an option is to have no title output by default for the 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.. @arush volunteered to own the ticket.

#35313: Remove title attributes: Posts, Pages, and CPTs screens
What to do with icons with a title attribute? For a sighted desktop user, the title attribute is the only indication what the icon means. There are many places where the link is just shown as an icon, and here the totle attribute was useful. We discussed how to solve this: we need to develop a coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. method to handle tooltips effectively. Andrea will open a ticket for this.

Color contrast: Some browsers do not support the styling of checkboxes and radio buttons. This means that in some browsers give that borders a poor contrast by default.

@afercia started to open tickets about the color contrast like #35497: List tables: Post format links improvements
@rianrietveld will make a list of all the color issues in the Admin, we can use as a reference to open new tickets.

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) guidelines for core

@joedolson had some comments on the core 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) guidelines; just a couple, minor changes for clarity. Basically well received by the core team. Joe is waiting for a few more comments from members of the core team that did not have to chance to look at them yet.

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