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.
Updates from working groups
- Documentation: updating the existing documents for accessibility standards to provide better guidance. Publishing information about WCAG 2.1 changes. Track progress in the WCAG 2.1 WP Update Google Document.
- Media: #47120 will be committed before beta 3; #50105 will be deferred to 5.8-early. It’s almost there, but it’s a major UI change that would require a significant push to have ready by Tuesday, and should really sit in core for longer. Joe Will probably commit as soon as alpha opens for 5.8, however. All media tickets are either committed or already bumped to later.
- Themes: Accessibility Ready tag reviews in progress, a couple days out of the week. Working on developing workshop on Learn WordPress.
- Design: good progress with design/A11y joint bug scrub.
- Meta: a Meta TRAC ticket worth checking out: Category archives pages : accessibility improvement (HTML)
- General: during the bug scrub, we reviewed the five tickets with milestone 5.7 that are still open. 16 tickets in the milestone have been closed.
Open floor
- WordPress 5.8 is open for development, now is a good time to start coming up with accessibility goals.
- The next Learn working group meeting is being held in #training on Thursday, 18 February 2021, 19:00 UTC.
- @mgifford will be giving a presentation at the DC Drupal meetup group about the accessibility of the new White House website (built with WordPress). If possible, consider attending! Drupal NoVA: 10 Things We Can Learn from the New WhiteHouse.gov on Accessibility