Design Team Meeting Notes February 17, 2021

These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting agenda here. You can join the 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/. channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

Attendees: @estelaris, @shaunandrews, @critterverse, @jameskoster, @kellychoffman, @karmatosed, @chaion07, @xris, @joyously, @ashiquzzaman, @hedgefield

Housekeeping

• We have an open call for note-takers and triage facilitators. These both are great ways to get involved for new contributors but everyone is welcome to help out. Let us know if you are interested in the comments.
• Contributions to the Design Team is always welcomed. Please 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.” @estelaris or @chaion07 and they will guide you through.

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Blog Highlights

• Making WordPress Release easier: Please take a look in this post and comment if you have something to say. The decision made after this will affect how often the team will release new WordPress versions. At the moment, we have a date for 5.7 (March 6) but release 5.8 is not yet confirmed. If you have anything to add, make sure you leave a comment on the post.
• Tentative release calendar: Find the release calendar for 2020-2021.
• Bringing the power of blocks to Widgets: There is a call for testing so please check it out and consider testing the feature.

Updates

Joint Design & A11YAccessibility 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) Bug Scrubs: Meetings are being held on a rotating basis on design and 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) channels. The purpose of these meeting is to find the tickets that require most attention for the 5.7 release.

Icons in Figma: Based on last weeks discussion about the icons in Figma, particularly anchor hashtag. Upon some research, @estelaris came up with this Wikipedia reference as seen in this example. Estela would check with MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. and Accessibility Teams respectively about the issues we may have about changing the anchor to an icon instead of a character and will report back to the team.

Open Floor

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