This is the proposed agenda for the 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 Friday, August 21, 2020 at 15:00 UTC.
- Announcement of the results of the vote to change the Accessibility Team’s weekly meeting day and time
- Call for Accessibility Team’s goals for WordPress 5.6
- Request for collaboration on 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/ and Full Site Editing - Discussion of the Gutenberg issue about adding user-editable aria-labels to links
- Discussion of the Gutenberg issue about communicating expanded/collapsed state of the “More options” button in block toolbar on iPod Touch
- Discussion of the Gutenberg issue about adding a screen reader announcement to the last block in a list
- 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 will be held on Friday, August 21, 2020, at 14:00 UTC.
This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making 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/ (requires registration).