These are the notes for the Make WordPress Accessibility Team meeting, that occurred Friday, February 4, 17:00 UTC. You can read the entire meeting transcript on our Slack channel and view the Meeting Agenda here. The meeting begins on time at the conclusion of the bug scrub, a welcome to new attendees with introductions, and rules for a family-friendly meeting.
Updates from working groups
- Report from General Team — Since it is right after a major release, they’ve been focusing on issues milestoned for the next minor release. And they’re checking issues in the awaiting review queue, to avoid things piling up. There’s no set timeline for the 6.0 release yet, so, if possible, we’ll try to dedicate more time during bug-scrubs to Gutenberg issues.
- Report from Gutenberg Team — @alexstine brought Ticket #37934 Fix useFocusFirstElement in non-contenteditable Blocks up for discussion, stating that this item could use a lot of testing. The code used was great for older Blocks but not as good fro the newer ones.
Suggestion by @joedolson is to try to replicate the scenario described in the “How has this been tested?” section. Questions like, “is there a list of blocks this issue applies to?” assuming it not only applies to columns but also groups, etc.
Groups will be harder (to test) because there is nothing currently in a Group Block right now that will receive focus because they are all child Blocks. This will be improved in future pull requests, making sure every Block has at least one focussable element. There should be some improvement with the Columns Block.
Finally, this does work despite the failing tests meaning @alexstine will need to track down some dedicated help to debug. - Report from Media Team — Most of the goals for media are set. There are a handful of accessibility issues to tackle. Time permitting, Joe will add some other things, but if the admin image editor redesign is going to have any feasibility, he can’t add much more.
- Report from Meta Team — Although there was a member present to report, the big change is the new header across .org. It could probably stand a review, if anybody has time. There is one bug that needs to be reported, but could use further investigation.
Open Floor
Our weekly meeting closed with these comments:
- Destiny asked how the Learn session prep going and volutneered to assist if needed; and
- To catch up on team news, goals, and more articipants were pointed here to get meeting recaps, agendas, and upcoming meeting information.