Progress report on WordPress 5.3 Trac tickets
There is 66 accessibility focused tickets in milestone 5.3:
- 10 are fixed
- 56 still need to be fixed
To help them moving forward, two additional bug scrubs are scheduled, on Tuesday 3 September 2019 at 15:00 UTC and Tuesday 10 September 2019 at 15:00 UTC.
@afercia noted that some of those tickets are close to commit. Andrea will try to commit some of them in the next days.
@joedolson won’t be able to address his own tickets until 14 September.
@anevins is going to update the #core-media tickets spreadsheet to highlight media tickets that still need some work.
Assign owners for tickets slated into WordPress 5.3 milestone
@abrightclearweb asked what ticket owners are supposed to do exactly.
@anevins: “They make sure the work gets done by either assigning the work to a practitioner (comes with pretty pleases) or by doing it themselves. They just drive the work forward.”
@joedolson: “it can including writing the patch, but doesn’t need to.”
@abrightclearweb took ownership on #47477. @kjellr will also help on that ticket if needed.
For further informations about testing a patch, see the related core handbook page. However, that assumes contributors have a working development environment. Patch can also be tested directly by applying the patch manually. @joedolson also shared a generic document on creating and applying patches (not about WordPress, but it would work).
At the moment this summary is written, there is still 10 tickets without owner in milestone 5.3. Any contributors are welcome to ask for ownership in accessibility Slack channel.
Open floor
The accessibility team discussed ticket #47149. Some comments were added in the ticket.
@afercia noted aria-controls shouldn’t be used anymore and quoted a tweet by Steve Faulkner:
In short, JAWS was the only assistive technology to actually use aria-controls and the implementation was just confusing. An other post was also quoted for further informations about aria-controls.
@audrasjb changed the initial 5.3 additional bug scrubs time from 14:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC to make it easier for US contributors.