These is the bi-weekly notes for the 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 that happens on alternate Thursday in #accessibility. You can read the full transcript here or see the full meeting schedule.
- Looking for Table leads for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe 2026 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/
- During the last triage, Joe shared a Google Doc for capturing feedback and observations on how the new changes (slider, editor, and controls) are working.
- WordPress Accessibility Day 2026’s call for speakers is officially open!
- Updated schedule for the WordPress 7.0 Release party.
Working Group Updates
New and updated documentation: about alternative text for images, headings and links plus an introduction to WCAGWCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/..
Work in progress: documentation about how to test for accessibility, update of the info about the accessibility-ready tag in the themes handbook and figure out a section “Can I use”.
In bug scrubs, focus has been on assigning tickets for the 7.1 release, with 22 tickets currently milestoned. Due to the extended 7.0 release cycle, several new interfaces; mainly 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/; still need review. Since the 7.1 schedule isn’t finalized yet, no significant increase in tickets is expected for now.
Focus has been on reviewing new coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. features, particularly visual revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision., with many areas still needing attention. While work continues on client-side media and the tabs blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience., priority remains on features planned for the 7.0 release.
Key references include visual history updates and improvements to the Admin Font Library. There is a strong need for more review time to identify and raise issues, especially for features that haven’t yet been evaluated. Notably, real-time collaboration has not undergone accessibility testing yet. Contributors are encouraged to explore and help identify any gaps.
Progress on themes has been limited due to other priorities.
Thank you @joedolson and @rianrietveld for sharing the updates on working group.
NOTE: If you’d like to have a topic added to the agenda for our next meeting, please mention it in the comments on an upcoming agenda.