These are the notes for the Make WordPress Accessibility Team meeting, that occurred Friday, April 1, 17:00 UTC. @joesimpsonjr filled in for @ryokui for this meeting. You can read the entire meeting transcript on our Slack channel and view the Meeting Agenda here. The meeting begins on time at the conclusion of the bug scrub led by @sabernhardt, a welcome to new attendees with introductions, and rules for a family-friendly meeting.
Updates from working groups
- Report from Documentation Team — @joedolson has been coordinating with @Hauwa Abashiya to follow up on the docs she brought last week, so those are progressing. For better clarity, I’m going to create a fully-realized demo of wp.a11y.speak() and place it in the wpaccessibility github repo. He also been working on getting an accessibility doc added to the plugin developer’s handbook. Accessibility Document can be found here. Practically, only the main page probably needs to be in the plugin handbook; the four sub sections might be good additions to our handbook;
- Additional Report from Documentation Team —@sabernhardt provided more General Updates later:
- WordPress 6.0 Beta 1 is April 12, with 20 tickets left in the 6.0 milestone.
- Today’s bug scrub covered the 8 features and enhancements.
- There are also 12 open bug tickets with the same deadline.
- The Awaiting Review queue has 7 tickets, with only one opened since last week; and
- Report from Gutenberg Team — @alexstine reported that Add screen reader instructions for navigating child blocks on block selection is currently blocked.
@joedolson also asked for an update on #35483: Accessibility improvements for the Bulk Edit form
Open Floor
Our weekly meeting closed with this comment:
@joesimpsonjr mentioned he is a Team Captain on the WordCamp US organizing team for this year’s event on September 9 through 11 in San Diego, California. It is in-person (if things continue to progress from a health perspective), but I wanted to invite anyone to participate:
- Submit a topic(s) for presentation during our current Call for Speakers. He’d love to see Accessibility and the work done on this team represented; and
- Invite anyone form our Make Accessibility Team to be there for Contributor Day or possibly represent our team during the event. @joedolson mentioned he’ll be there.