These are the bi-weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript here or see the full meeting schedule.
Updates from the working groups
NOTE: Only groups that provided updates are shown below.
General Working Group:
@joedolson shared this update for discussion/comment:
- Lots of progress on patches, but I’ve been really short on time to get them committed. Hopefully will make some progress next week.
Gutenberg Working Group:
@annezazu for this ‘hefty’ share from the Gutenberg working group:
- 6.6 Specificity/Style tracking issue was opened to help gather and fix related specificity issues from the 6.6 release.
- Admin design: an issue for Systematising typography styles in the admin UI was opened to “ensure design consistency and ease of maintenance”.
- Design Share #61 (Jul 15-Aug 9) — recent recap post of design efforts and a great way to see what’s top of mine for design contributors as well as how to get involved.
- Canonical blocks: New tracking issue for blocks to expand pattern/theme design with a PR underway to add an Accordion Block.
- Comments pagination block: efforts were kicked off to Deprecate Comments Pagination block
- Components: design efforts have started to update TimePicker component design. Great spot for accessibility to get involved.
- Data views: outside of quick improvements to grid density and ease of us, a PR is underway to bring support for quick editing in the list view layout.
- Block supports & Extensibility: Stabilize the experimentalDefaultControls block supports property & Stabilize border block support keys
- Fonts: a new issue explores exposing the Font Library for classic themes & and another discusses whether to make elements font options referenceable. Both are excellent for themers to dive into.
- Gallery block: Add lightbox option in gallery block link control.
- Grid: various issues are underway to improve grid support including broader discussions regarding major flows and questions around what should be the default mode (manual or auto).
- Media: very early PR for WIP Add experiment for client-side media processing which “lays the foundation for client-side media processing in Gutenberg—meaning we can do things like thumbnail generation, cropping, compression, and format conversion (transcoding) all in the browser.”
- Performance: PR Inserter: Try improving pattern loading to both improve performance and the experience of patterns in the Inserter to lessen any jumpiness in the UI for users.
- Post formats: PR underway for Query loop / Post template: Enable post format filter which touches on broader ideas around bringing post formats to block themes.
- Templates: PR landed Add plugin template registration API greatly easing plugins registering templates with some follow up issues opened already including Template registration API: allow setting the template author to something different from a plugin. Tied to this an issue was opened around adding template states to the Site Editor, similar to block states.
- Writing: Drag & drop: allow direct block drag, Improve visualization of side by side dragging
- Zoom out: an iteration issue has been opened to track efforts for 6.7 and includes PRs like Zoom Out: Escape when clicking directly on the canvas or pressing enter on the canvas to help sort through how to engage and disengage from this option.
@joedolson commented:
- Would like to second @annezazu pointing out of the accordion block as something that should get attention. It’s been a heavily demanded block, and maybe if it goes in we can get ‘accordion’ removed as a search keyword for the details block.
@poena also commented:
- Yes the “Deprecate comment pagination” issue could benefit from comments from the team. I need to reply back, it is on my to do list.
Media Working Group:
@annezazu for this ‘hefty’ share from the Gutenberg working group:
- @antpb is continuing to work on a PR for the future media library interface, but it’s not ready for reviewing yet; once that’s making more progress, media will need to be a major focus.
Meta Working Group:
@annezazu for this ‘hefty’ share from the Gutenberg working group:
- Joe Dolson will be doing a final a11y review of the Playground block next week, then it should become available for Learn users after that.
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