Accessibility Team Meeting Notes for 5 July 2019


Meeting transcript on Slack

Media tickets updates

A few more tickets discussed, but relatively little progress this week.

Success Metrics and framing for Gutenberg Sidebar

@sarahmonster raised the concern that we were looking at options without having done prior work to determine what was considered success and how to evaluate that, so we’ve taken a step back to define that.

Secondarily, we want to move away from discussing this in a private conversation and improve transparency as we brainstorm.

Still in progress at defining the path for opening this discussion; summer plans & WCEU have slowed progress.

WCEU Update

@ryokuhi was at the WP accessibility theme auditor table, which was very interesting.

@poena commented that the themes table was in a different room from the theme auditor, so they couldn’t work together.

@ryokuhi Would very much like to see more presence from #a11y team members at major WordCamps and contributor days

Discussed the feasibility of that, given the expense for members & size of the team; considered the possibility of having a remote contributor day focused on accessibility.

Gutenberg Open Forum

@ryokuhi will add some thoughts about Snackbars

Continuing discussion, by mutual agreement, focused on how we might imagine a remote contributor day for accessibility & other teams.