{"id":17432,"date":"2026-05-06T08:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/accessibility\/?p=17432"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:25:10","slug":"accessibility-team-meeting-agenda-may-07-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/accessibility\/2026\/05\/06\/accessibility-team-meeting-agenda-may-07-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: May 07, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly\u00a0<span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>Accessibility<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Accessibility<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>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 \u201cdirect access\u201d (i.e. unassisted) and \u201cindirect access\u201d meaning compatibility with a person\u2019s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Accessibility)<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0Team meeting on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/fixedtime.html?iso=20260507T1500\"><abbr class=\"date\" title=\"2026-05-07T15:00:00+00:00\">Thursday, May 7, 2026 15:00 UTC<\/abbr><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/equalizedigital.com\/gaad2026\/\">Join Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2026<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update will be shared for accessibility-ready guidelines for themes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2026\/04\/22\/wordpress-7-0-release-party-updated-schedule\/\">RC3 (\u201cnew Beta 1\u201d) scheduled for this Friday, May 8th<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Updates from the working group<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Documentation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>General<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>Gutenberg<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Gutenberg<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>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 \u2018blocks\u2019 to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc.\r<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/gutenberg\/\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/gutenberg\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Themes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Open floor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Accessibility Team bug scrub is every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC, held in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.slack.com\/messages\/C02RP4X03\">#accessibility<\/a>\u00a0channel\u00a0on the Make WordPress\u00a0<span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>Slack<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>Slack<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/\">https:\/\/slack.com\/<\/a>. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/chat\/\">https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/chat\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/chat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">registration required<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<nav class='o2-post-footer-actions'><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><li class='o2-post-footer-action'><a href=\"https:\/\/login.wordpress.org\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Faccessibility%2F2026%2F05%2F06%2Faccessibility-team-meeting-agenda-may-07-2026%2F%23respond&#038;locale=en_US\" title=\"Login to Reply\"  class=\"genericon  genericon-reply\"  data-action=\"login-to-reply\"  data-actionstate=\"default\" >Login to Reply<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class='o2-post-footer-action-likes'><\/div><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><\/ul><\/nav>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly\u00a0AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. 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