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.
Accessibility Team Rep nominations
@ryokuhi posted a Call for Team Rep Nominations on 15 July 2022, asking team contributors if they were interested in taking the role he has held for a more than two years.
@sabernhardt was nominated by @joedolson and @ryokuhi, but he had already expressed his doubts at the time of the nomination.
The call stays open for now until further notice.
Accessibility of pattern previews in theme pages
In a message on the channel, @poena had asked to discuss the new feature adding pattern previews to individual theme pages, which had an issue that prevented navigating through the pattern list when using keyboard only.
By the time of the meeting, the issue had been solved, but the new interface would still benefit for some extra accessibility testing: findings might be added as comments to the ticket on Meta Trac about adding pattern demos to themes and new bugs can be reported by creating new tickets on Meta Trac. @Ryokuhi reported that he was able to spot a couple bugs while quickly testing.
Updates from the working groups
Only groups that provided updates are shown below.
Design
@ryelle shared that the WordPress.org redesign is underway and that the current progress can be viewed on the staging site. Bespite being still in progress, accessibility feedback on the homepage and the download page is welcome and can be added to the repository of the wordpress.org block-based theme.
Documentation
@azhiyadev reported that a few minor changes were made last week. She invited everyone who spot anything that needs updating to let her know and that she’ll try to dedicate more time to the team, as far as daily job allows it.
General
@ryokuhi reported that the Team is keeping track of tickets in the Awaiting Review queue (at the time they were 12) and of tickets milestoned for the 6.1 release: at the moment, 17 of them are still open and 10 of them have already been committed.
Gutenberg
In a message posted before the meeting, @get_dave asked for accessibility feedback on the Pull Request about adding custom labels to blocks in list view. @joedolson already gave a quick feedback, but such a feature could use some more feedback.
Themes
@poena completed a review of the accessibility of the Twenty Twenty-Two theme and added the findings as a comment to the ticket about adding the accessibility-ready label to the Twenty Twenty-Two theme. The only issue is that the aria-hidden attribute is missing from icons in the query pagination: such an issue has already been addressed in Gutenberg and will be included in the 6.1 release.
She also asked if the team wants to use the accessibility-ready tag for block themes at all: it was decided to rediscuss this issue during the meeting happening on September 2, 2022, inviting contributors to Gutenberg and to the Themes Team to attend to have a preliminary discussion about the topic. After that, discussion can continue through comments to a post published on the Accessibility Team blog or by bringing discussion to a core chat.
Open floor
@joesimpsonjr reported that he submitted information about Table Leads for the Accessibility Table at WordCamp US Contributor Day, happening on Sunday, 11 September 2022: @joedolson and @joesimpsonjr will be present all day long, with @alexstine possibly joining for part of it and @ryokuhi available remotely through Slack. They will prepare a list of small potential tasks people can look at, covering a broad spectrum of knowledge bases and specialties, including docs, testing, coding, etc.
Congratulations to @joedolson and @alexstine for being accepted as speakers for WordCamp US!
@ryokuhi won’t be able to attend the bug scrub on 26 August 2022, but @chaion07 volunteered to facilitate it.