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.
Initial focus on Gutenberg blocks
The team continued the discussion about where initial focus should land on the different types of blocks available in the block editor. For example, some blocks such as text-based blocks have a clearly defined editable area, which makes it obvious where focus should land. This however is not the case with a variety of blocks where text is not the primary element.
The team agreed to investigate and document initial focus on all the available blocks in core and post findings on a newly created spreadsheet that contains a list of all the blocks. We’ll revisit the list during the next meeting and evaluate our progress.
5.3.1 scope
The team’s goal for 5.3.1 is to address any immediate regressions introduced on 5.3. The tickets that need special attention are #48585, #48598, #47142, #47069 and #48420. Help with testing, patches and providing feedback is welcome.
Accessible color schemes
The team continued the discussion from the previous meeting about having color schemes in wp-admin that address specific accessibility needs. We think this could be a great feature proposal for 5.4 or 5.5.
The team agreed that we should start with a plugin that will reside in the accessibility team’s GitHub repository.