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 and Accessibility Patterns: updating the existing accessibility standards document. Publishing information about WCAG 2.1 changes. Plan is still to publish the document around the 5.7 release.
- Media: most 5.8 priorities set. Planning to scrub all old tickets. The most notable change is removing infinite scroll from the media library.
- Themes: no progress on workshop lesson plans. Two Accessibility Ready tagged themes went live.
- Gutenberg: persistent list view continues to be a topic of discussion. Full site editing second call for testing. Internet Explorer 11 support could be ending. Post going live Monday or soon after.
- Design: no updates.
- Meta: no updates.
- General: Twenty-one tickets fixed in 5.7.
Call for WordPress 5.8 accessibility team’s goals
The post has been published and is ready for your feedback: Accessibility Team’s goals for WordPress 5.8 and beyond
Open floor
- The next Learn WordPress working group meeting is Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 3:00PM UTC.
- New contributors to the accessibility team would like to discuss in a future meeting how to get started with contributing.
- 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.
- The Gutenberg PR Add NVDA instructions to the accessibility testing docs was merged in 3 days ago.