CSS chat summary: 30th April 2020

Welcome!

The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:

Found a bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.? Create a ticket in the bug tracker.

Want to contribute? Get started quickly with tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on the reports page, like patches needing testing, and on feature projects page.

Other questions? Here is a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

Full meeting transcript 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/.: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/CQ7V4966Q/p1588280435384600

I (@isabel_brison) facilitated the meeting.

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. audit updates

I reviewed and helped to update a patch for removing ie7/ie8-specific styles.

Color scheming updates

@ryelle created a ticket for discussion of current color scheme limitations and improvements needed. It has been brought to the awareness of 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, and we agreed to ask the design team for input too. The goal is that this be a cross-team project to create color schemes with different accessibility features.

Call for volunteers

Is anyone keen to help @notlaura and myself with running this weekly chat? It would be great to have someone else, even if only to step in occasionally when neither of us can make it.

@ryelle has kindly volunteered to help with note-taking.

That was all for this week!

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