Accessibility Team Meeting notes for 31 May 2019


Meeting transcript on Slack

Team Goal progress

Media tickets: tickets have been reviewed and triaged, media team is starting to tackle. @afercia is tackling #47141.

Gutenberg issues: many issues are in progress. Early yet.

Glossary implementation on Make sites

Discussed concerns with implementation. Current implementation has some degree of accessibility, but doesn’t give users a lot of choice; no option to dismiss definitions and reads them automatically, rather than giving user choice. The vocabulary is probably also too broad, encompassing general terms not specific to WordPress that perhaps should not be in the purview of our glossary.

Goal:

1) The user needs to be able to choose whether to read the definition or not.
2) In order for that to be relevant, focusing on the term needs to convey to the user that there is more information – a definition – available.
3) Having activated the definition, the user needs to also be able to choose how to move away from it.
Right now, none of these are true.

Gutenberg 5.8 Widgets UI

Quickly got derailed into general comments about the Gutenberg sidebar construction. Noted some issues in the widgets UI:

  • Block selection area invisible in some circumstances
  • Add block button not findable

Gutenberg open floor

Discussed sidebar issues, and the specific concerns about focus order & DOM ordering that make the sidebar difficult for keyboard navigation.

@joedolson, @mapk, @sarahmonster, and @nrqsnchz will coordinate to plan possible options.