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 the meeting’s agenda here.
Updates from the working groups
Only groups that provided updates are shown below.
General
@ryokuhi reported a few statistics for Trac tickets collected at the time of the meeting.
- There were 10 tickets in the Awaiting Review queue, all of them reviewed at least once. One of them is in the process of being moved to the next major release.
- There were 16 (+ 1) tickets already milestoned for the next major release (6.2), with no timeline for the release set yet.
Gutenberg
Before the meeting, @annezazu reported that the Pull Request to introduce browse mode broke the ARIA landmark structure: this is being addressed in issue 46509.
She also reported that the 19th call for testing for the Full Site Editing Outreach Program has been released and, as always, testing with keyboards and screen readers is really appreciated.
Meta
@joedolson shared a request for feedback about the refresh of the showcase site, which was published in the #accessibility channel the week before the meeting.
Open floor
@joedolson and @alh0319 shared about an offer from Pagely to pay for some WordPress user testing. Full discussion was very long and can be found in the #accessibility channel. @alh0319 is working on a list of instructions for testers, which will be shared for feedback here as soon as they are ready.
@afercia made a proposal to establish Accessibility Office hours. The proposal was met with wide support, and @afercia is free to work out the details.
Hostinger has offered team contributors attending the Contributor Day of WordCamp Asia 2023 an invitation for a Contributor Day dinner. If anyone is attending and is willing to volunteer as a representative for the Accessibility Table, please let the team know in the Slack channel.
For the next two weeks, the Team will check on Wednesday whether someone is available to facilitate the bug scrub.
@ryokuhi is stepping down from his role as Accessibility Team Rep. The Call for Team Reps is still open: if you want to candidate yourself or if you have a name for a possible Team Rep, write it in the comments to that post.