This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly 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 meeting on Thursday, August 13, 2026 15:00 UTC
📣 Announcements
- 7.1 RC3 is scheduled to be released on Wed Aug 12th (today)
- 7.1 RC1 was released Wed August 5th.
- WordPress 7.1 Field Guide is published.
- 7.1 Release Candidate phase
- 7.0.3 Security release is released as part of WordPress 7.1 RC2
- What’s new in Gutenberg 23.7 is also published.
- WCUS 2026 is next week and WordPress 7.1 is planned to release live at WCUS on August 19th. The release time is yet to be announced.
Proposed Discussion
@annezazu has proposed the discuss around the accessibility lab
Working groups
- WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and the BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Editor
- Accessibility-ready Program
- Documentation about Web Accessibility
Open floor
If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post.
The Accessibility Team bug scrub is every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC, held in the #accessibility channel on the Make WordPress 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/ (registration required).