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.
Discussion on the Navigation Menu block testing
A few weeks ago, we started doing a11y testing on a new navigation menu block in Gutenberg. @nrqsnchz will be moving the results of these tests into GitHub issues in the Gutenberg repository.
It’s important to note that the release of the navigation menu block was postponed.
Discussion of team involvement in Gutenberg development
We continued the discussion from last week regarding the team’s participation in the Gutenberg repository in GitHub.
There was a general consensus that being a small team, our time and bandwidth are limited. That being said, we’d still like to add a couple of items to our team process to try to mitigate this.
We agreed to start raising two Gutenberg issues that need accessibility feedback each week during our team meeting.
We’ll also look at adding a Slack – GitHub integration to our team channel that posts issues that need accessibility feedback. We’ll give this integration a try and keep it if it’s working, or remove it if we find that it adds to much noise to our channel.
Another idea that was suggested was to add an additional Gutenberg-specific bug scrub session to our meeting schedule. This could be weekly, or perhaps every two weeks. Would you be interested in participating in these additional triage sessions? We ask members of the team to add their comments and suggestions in the comments of this post.
Improve the small user sub window at the right corner on the admin bar
We discussed this Trac ticket about usability issues of the ‘My account’ dropdown menu (also known as the ‘Howdy fly-out’) in wp-admin.
The team agreed that accidental triggers are common with this menu, and argued the importance and relevance of its contents.
@danihooven, @joedolson, and @afercia (a.k.a. ‘The Howdy Force Team’) agreed to continue researching this ticket and will be following up.