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Also, we are getting close to freeze. It’s abou that time in the release cycle when I go through all the tickets and find things I really wish we’d gotten to in this cycle. If there are any developers interested in contributing but not already working working on a team or specific ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker., you could join my hit squad. I’ll find a handful of things I really wish someone would knock out before freeze, that I’ll promise to get committers to review when a patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. is posted. If you’re interested in being part of this sprint (starts Friday, goes through freeze in about a week), leave a comment and I’ll pingPing The 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.” you when there’s a list of tickets up for grabs.

Of course, ALL tickets are up for grabs, and anyone who wants to contribute to the cycle does not in any way need to wait for me to just jump in and take a stab at something!

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Daniel Chatfield 8:17 pm on February 22, 2012

Hi Jane,

I’m interested in being in this “hit squad” so pingPing The 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.” me when you have a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker..

Kind Regards,
Daniel
Joachim Kudish 8:18 pm on February 22, 2012

I would be interested and available in the next week or so to help out with that!
Mika Epstein (Ipstenu) 8:44 pm on February 22, 2012

I’m gonna volunteer too, and hope I don’t have to flake out! Willing to do my best!
trepmal 8:48 pm on February 22, 2012

I’m in – been meaning to catch up on tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. so this is a good push for me.
Erick Hitter 9:07 pm on February 22, 2012

I’m interested.
Konstantin 10:04 pm on February 22, 2012

I’d love to contribute!
John P. Bloch 2:10 pm on February 23, 2012

I’d be interested in taking any tickets you throw my way.
Xavier 2:56 pm on February 23, 2012

I’m not that much of a seasoned coder, but I’m going to try and give #4539 some love this week-end (meaning, try adapting norbertm’s patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. to the current codebase).
Graham Armfield 6:56 pm on February 23, 2012

Hi Jane,

I’ve been extremely busy just recently so had to drop out for a bit. However I need to ask about 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) again. I haven’t seen any mention of it so far in the 3.4 lifecycle and there are plenty of parts of the back end that could really do with some serious thought about how they can be made accessible.

If you are intending right at the last minute (as with 3.3) to ask for accessibility comments I will try and help, but I would like to restate that accessibility is not adequately served by tweaks right at the end of a build process. It really does need to be designed in from the start. Perhaps when you guys get round to 3.5 there will be some scope for adding it in to your wishlist.

I have contributed various ideas on https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/ and other threads but I’ve seen no obvious take-up on these ideas. And I’m happy to share and debate my thoughts with anyone and to help guide people in thinking accessibly.

So I have to ask: “Is it the desire of WordPress devs to make WordPress as accessible as it can be?”

If it is, then can it be included in some kind of masthead or mission statement so that it’s obvious to everyone and so it can be part of our guiding light? There seems to be a definite movement for this within Drupal development now.

If you guys are not interested in making WordPress accessible then please say so and I will happily stop badgering you.

Graham
- Jane Wells 7:04 pm on February 23, 2012
  
  The answer is yes, BUT. Just like anything else, developing WP depends on developers. That’s people who are willing to write the code for features and improvements, including 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). The new base features for 3.4 are not completed yet, as the status reports and weekly dev chats show; about half the teams are behind. There have been a fair number of people making suggestions re accessibility. Unfortunately, these people often don’t agree on what we should be doing, and in 3.3 we took the advice of experts only to have to backpedal. At that point we asked Mel (esmi) ta act as a team lead for the accessibility blogblog (versus network, site) and help 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 suggestions into specific actionable items. So the best thing to do would be to engage with esmi on the accessibility blog with the goal of lobbing action items our way that she’s approved OR to contribute patches with the accessibility fixes you’re proposing straight to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
  
  When most of the development is done by volunteers, it’s a very different situation than when you control a paid dev team, so expectations need to be adjusted accordingly. I know you’d much prefer that I say, “Yes, I will put several of our best developers right on it!” but since most contributors develop the things they enjoy working on, the challenge is finding people who want to focus on accessibility.
Jesper 7:48 pm on February 23, 2012

I’m interested as well.
Thorsten 6:14 pm on February 25, 2012

I’m happy to help out if you point me to something you like.
Mike Van Winkle 4:54 pm on February 29, 2012

I’m kind of noob when it comes to contributing. But I’ve been looking for an opportunity to try and help, so maybe this is it.

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