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.
WordPress 5.5 release post-mortem
The team shared and discussed what we thought went well and went wrong with our team’s projects and tasks during the release of WordPress 5.5.
The issue of not enough early involvement and feedback during design and development updates to the block editor was brought up a few times and discussed at length. We all agreed that the process needs to be improved and our team is still very limited in terms of time and resources.
We agreed to explore solutions and ideas that would help us improve this cycle and follow-up in a separate document or post. @sarahricker volunteered to put all of this feedback together.
Team goals and priorities for WordPress 5.6
We reviewed the suggested projects and priorities that were added to the call posted earlier this week. After some discussion and a show of hands, the following projects gathered enough interest and participation:
- Updating the WordPress Accessibility coding standards from WCAG 2.0 to WCAG 2.1 and document accessibility anti-patterns
- Accessibility of the WordPress 2021 default theme
- A feature plugin to create an “Accessibility Statement” tool with features equivalent to Privacy Policy Tools
All other items on the agenda that couldn’t be covered will be added to next week’s meeting agenda.