These are the weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.
Proposal to improve usage of keywords and labels on accessibility tickets, issues and pull requests
Add a new workflow to Trac tickets. This will allow the accessibility team to skip a ticket if there is an in progress or not yet developed UI from popping up in weekly bug scrubs. The proposal post was published on the Accessibility blog. Our request will be brought up in dev chat.
Updates from the working groups
Only the groups with updates to share are listed below.
Gutenberg
The following updates were provided by @annezazu for Gutenberg.
- Check out the upcoming FSE Outreach Program schedule. TLDR: call for questions coming next week + the 6th call for testing is planned to be about template editing and the navigation block starting May 12th.
- Read a detailed post sharing next steps after the first go/no go date. TLDR: various testing calls and refinements need to happen before 5.8’s feature freeze on May 25th.
- Read the IE 11 Support Phase Out Plan. TLDR: officially removing IE11 support in WordPress 5.8.
- A PR was merged to add focus on the save button in FSE but there’s some feedback indicating that this is a disruptive flow.
Documentation and Patterns
moved the A11Y Pattern Library to its own document. The WCAG 2.1 Update doc was getting substantial.
Media
not much movement. Requesting opinions on removing infinite scroll.
General
Regarding general, today we still had a look at the Awaiting Review queue, next priorities are:
- Assign an owner to all tickets in the 5.8 milestone.
- Go through tickets milestoned for 5.8 and marked as enhancements and feature requests.
Open floor
It was suggested that the team make the accessibility team working groups more visible this way new contributors could find the list and know what each group’s responsibility is.