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, September 18, 2020 at 15:00 UTC.
- Update on WordPress 5.6 Accessibility Team’s goals
- Discussion about the use of the Gutenberg project board to trace work to be included in WordPress 5.6
- Further review of the accessibility of new and existing sidebars in 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/. Related issues and pull requests are listed below:- Gutenberg issue 20212
- Gutenberg issue 22858 (closed, but related)
- Gutenberg issue 24975
- Gutenberg pull request 25034
- Review of the accessibility of toolbars in Gutenberg. Related issues and pull requests are listed below:
- Open floor
Checking issues and pull requests listed above before the meeting would allow us to save time and start the discussion right away, so please try and have a look at them if you can.
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, September 18, 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).