These are the bi-weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript here or see the full meeting schedule.
Updates from the working groups
NOTE: Only groups that provided updates are shown below.
Team Updates
- @joedolson shared: #51870 is just pending second opinions. This removes a ton of placeholders and replaces them with real labels. Will hopefully be updated today.
@annezazu shared the following update for the Gutenberg Team:
6.5 related updates:
- Design draft shared for the highlight grid for 6.5.
- Section Styling: this work has been punted due to some blockers in resolving CSS specificity questions.
- Font Library: biggest work continues to be the Font Library: refactor REST API which was merged into Gutenberg following this merge criteria for this feature and had a quick PR to follow up on feedback. Outside of that, a discussion is underway around making the font library more discoverable.
- Pattern overrides: there are some current questions around how this features ties to the Block Renaming API and how the internal block ids are generated and used. Right now, we can find the block names through block ids, but we cannot do the same the other way around.
- Data Views: a recap of what’s planned and stable for 6.5 has been shared along with a PR to add sync status by default for Patterns, matching the current experience.
- Link Control: A bigger PR was merged for Implementing new UX for invoking rich text Link UI by requiring explicit activation before displaying the Link UI interface.
- Block Bindings: the experimental flag was removed along with an outline of next steps for Gutenberg RC, Beta, and what’s out of scope for 6.5 (including when to backport). For out of scope, this includes a UI for users to add bindings. A ~4 min video walks you through the current status in trunk!
Outside of 6.5, an issue was opened for Media workflows around patterns that any media minded folks will find interesting.
- @joedolson said he’s really looking forward to the new link UI. It’s a significant improvement. @jeryj added that the interactions and states feel so much more consistent and predictable.
@chaion07 also shared this for discussion:
- The bug-scrub schedule for 6.5 release has been updated with the dates for the alpha phase. I’d really appreciate if we get this link shared during the meeting.
- Joe reported that there’s a major planning meeting for strategizing the new media library on Thursday the 8th, so that’s the biggest thing coming up. Did get a minor fix shipped yesterday.
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Joe reported I have a new volunteer who wants to work on theme reviews & documentation; he’s going to touch base with @poena and @travel_girl to discuss.
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@travel_girl shared the first draft for the testing guideline. https://wp-coworking.de/draft-cheat-sheet-testing-for-accessibility-ready-tag/
- Joe is head down trying to finish some things before beta 1, which is coming up very soon now;
- @joesimpsonjr asks if anyone is attending WordCamp Asia and Contributor Day?
- Jeff Chi asked “Did someone answer to this request regarding the WordPress 6.5 release?”
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