Call for Testers: Support Navigation and Edit Mode
For reference, see the related pull request on Gutenberg GitHub repository.
Lacking a pre-release version to share, we’ll wait on the official release of Gutenberg 6.3, then publish a call for testers. Release is expected on Wednesday, August 14th.
Joe Dolson will write up the call for testing.
WP Accessibility Day
Will pass off further discussion of WP Accessibility Day to the volunteer organizing team. Need to establish a method to coordinate between organizing team & then plan periodic reports back to the Accessibility team on progress.
@audrasjb & @joedolson will coordinate that.
Ticket Ownership for WordPress 5.3
Proposed schedule has been published, so we have some idea of what to target. Proposed schedule is for November 12th, so we’ll operate on the assumption of a probably September 23rd beta.
A11y team members should spend time reviewing the tickets slated for next release to identify candidates they believe they have time to coordinate on.
Even if a ticket has an owner, a lack of activity may suggest that the owner will be open to changing the assignment.
Need to communicate more with the Media team to get ownership of the many Media tickets targeted for this release.
Don’t hesitate to request feedback from various teams by assigning task-related keywords to a ticket – this can be significantly more effective than trying to ping an individual for feedback.
Open Floor
Work on re-thinking the block sidebar has been slow; trying to get that re-started as the summer winds down.
@arush mentioned earlier that Slack threads are now accessible; need to do some research to identify whether we should now allow them in meetings.
@joedolson will contact Amanda to ask for her thoughts.
@joedolson has started working on updating .screen-reader-text info; but it’s been slow.
Discussed mobile device skip link issue addressed.