Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update #17

Sorry, I was away last week and didn’t get an update published. Great things have been happening lately. Let’s take a look.

• Gutenberg 5.6 is released! Yay!
• Usability testing is being performed weekly.
• Accessibility audit of Gutenberg has been released.

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/ 5.6 improvements

• New focus state for the Button block.
• Reduced specificity of block styles to make it easier for themes to style the editor.
• Restore block movers in focus mode.
• Remove redundant CSS styles.

Usability testing

Usability tests are being conducted weekly to evaluate Gutenberg. Posts will be published on make/test to share the videos so that everyone can comment and share their observations.

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) audit

The accessibility audit performed by Tenon, LLC. through WPCampus has been released. There were several issues created in Github. The Gutenberg team, Accessibility team, and others are triaging them. Several were found to be either duplicates or CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. bugs that required work beyond Gutenberg. Many of the other issues already have conversations leading to well-thought solutions. There’s been amazing collaboration between 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/ teams with this effort!

Tightening up

• Two great PRs have been introduced around nested blocks.
  • Click through
  • Borders and padding
• Social media block
• Update the Heading block icon
• Explorations around merging the Document Outline and Block Navigation
• Heading level notices

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