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.
Final review of WordPress 5.7 goals
- Accessibility: most tickets have already been handled.
- Media: starting to plan 5.8 goals.
- Documentation and Accessibility Patterns: no updates on progress. @joedolson said he would shift some of his focus in to writing WCAG 2.1 docs now that we’ve arrived at RC. Contributions always welcome. Plan is to have docs done by 5.7 release. Contribute here.
- Widget Screen: @joedolson created a TRAC ticket. Next week we’ll discuss timeline.
- Learn WordPress: meeting notes from yesterday.
- Themes: no update to share.
Open floor
- Discussed the TRAC ticket Use
prefers-reduced-motionMedia Query on auto-updates spinner animations, team discussion has been summarized in a comment. - Testing welcome on a GitHub issue to fix some accessibility issues with the blocks list in navigation mode: New: output block position for screen readers. Update: refactor the way the screen reader information on block button is delivered.