These are the 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 Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.
Quarterly community updates
Every three months, all Make WordPress teams are asked to update the community at large about what they are doing, so that everyone is aware of what’s going on. All updates are collected in a post published in a specific section of the WordPress website.
Previously, discussion about what to write in the post was left to the team reps, but @alexstine and @ryokuhi agreed that bringing it in the wild would be good for the team.
During the meeting, the team discussed about the challenges and big wins for the team in the preceding three months. @ryokuhi offered to integrate the points brought up during the meeting with the team goals for the next release and to write the report. Updates for the first quarter are now available on the Make website.
Updates from working groups
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/
@annezazu and @poena shared a few updates regarding Gutenberg and Full Site Editing
Full Site Editing updates
- Feedback for the latest Full Site Editing call for testing is due by April 12, 2021
- Contributors are invited to read a post about the scope of Full Site Editing for WordPress 5.8
- The next call for Full Site Editing testing will be published on or around April 13, 2021
- Issues with the “keyboard & focus” label need to be worked on
Gutenberg highlights
- An question was raised around whether the “open to save” prompt (that currently lacks focus) is needed. People are invited to share their thoughts on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ in the issue about adding focus to the “open save panel” prompt
- An issue about the usability of the Columns block with NDVA was recently opened
- A pull request about making clearer when and how to close the block inserter when it’s opened from the top bar was merged in Gutenberg 10.4
- A pull request to add alternative text for images in the cover block is underway
- A pull request about the output block position for screen readers is underway
Documentation
@Jill Mugge has been working on accessible patterns and antipatterns.
Media
@joedolson reported that everybody on the media team has been very busy in the last month, and nobody has done work on any open tickets yet.
Design
@sarahricker had been away for a few weeks and no one else was able to report.
MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.
@joedolson reported that there were no updates regarding meta.
Themes
@poena left a note after the meeting.
- There was no progress regarding the workshop for reviewing accessibility-ready themes
- There was no progress regarding adding more end user information about what accessibility-ready means
- The list of approved themes waiting for accessibility-ready review is empty, but the Michelle live theme is waiting for it
General
Bug-scrubs are still focused on clearing the Awaiting Review queue as much as possible. As soon as the 5.8 release date is confirmed, focus will move to tickets in the 5.8 milestone (currently, there are 15 of them).
Open floor
@paaljoachim asked for general and accessibility feedback about two Learn WordPress tutorials he wrote. This lead to opening an issue to fix the contrast problem in the Code Block CSS in the Learn WordPress repository.