Want to get involved? See the handbook and optionally drop into #design to chat. Most active design work happens in the block editor project, consider dropping into Needs design or Needs design feedback.
There’s a WordPress Component Library in Figma. Duplicate to edit, direct access is reserved for the design team.
There are a number of recent tickets 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) improvements in the admin, several of which raise questions that relate directly to 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. group. In particular:
#21283 Keyboard focus in the 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. should be on left options panel
#21310 Need skip link(s) at top of admin pages
#21312 How to log out of WordPress without a mouse?
#21324 Visible Focus within Admin Screens could be much clearer
#21326 Screen Options in Admin – Accessibility Enhancement
#21334 Accessibility of Quick Edit panel in Posts/Pages/etc
Please check them out and comment in-ticket with any feedback you may have; the same goes for any of the open tickets in the Accessibility component. Also, there are some tickets in the most recent batch that should be fairly easy for people who are just learning how to contribute. As always, you can ask here or in #wordpress-ui or #wordpress-dev any time if you need help with the whole process of working with tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. and trunk, applying and building patches, and the like.
In general, we want to be keeping accessibility in mind with all UI work and working closely with the accessibility group. Major thanks to everyone who has been stepping up and raising these issues lately!
