Accessibility team meeting notes for 3/29/2019

Meeting notes on Slack

Update on Automated testing

• Some Twitter buzz and stars on GitHub repo, but no testing comments yet.
• Discussed best strategies for moving forward. Will work on integrating with common WordPress theme dev resources such as Underscores, WP CLI, WPRig, etc.

User Handbook

• Dave Ryan responded and reported that he expected to be submitting a draft to HelpHub this week.

Use of tables in Health Check

• Health check plugin makes extensive use of tables for showing site information. Discussed whether these are data tables (and need headings) or presentational (and need role=presentational)
• Decided that due to the mixed content of both columns, this was best as a presentational table, but that there is no particularly good other semantic choice for display of this information.

Should we copy the alt text decision tree for translations?

• Core media views & Gutenberg contain links to the W3C alt decision tree. That document is only available in English.
• We need to determine a way to provide access to this data in translation.
• Probably need to communicate with documentation and polyglots to figure out the path for this.

Meeting time change

• Due to daylight saving time change in Europe, we voted to change the meeting time to 15:00 UTC.
• Meeting time change effective 5 April, 2019.
• Meeting time has been updated on make/accessibility and on the master list of team meetings.