These are the notes for the Make WordPress Accessibility Team meeting, that occurred Friday, January 7, 17:00 UTC. You can read the entire transcript on our Slack channel and view the Meeting Agenda here. The meeting begins on time after the conclusion of the bug scrub, a welcome to new attendees with introductions, and rules for a family-friendly meeting.
Goals for WordPress 6.0 release
- @ryokuhi suggested that with WordPress 5.9 Release Candidate 1 released this past Tuesday and WordPress trunk is now the 6.0 Alpha, it’s probably a good time to begin defining goals for the next release; and
- With WordPress 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8, we pubished post on the Make Accessibility Team site, asking for public feedback on possible major team goals for the next release. For the 5.9 release, we didn’t do this; after some discussion, now is a good time to publish this; and
- This post, Accessibility Team’s Goals for WordPress 6.0 and Beyond, is a good starting point for new contributors.
Updates from Working Groups
- Media Team @joedolson reported that this team is setting goals for 6.0 with a major focus being the redesign of the Media Library’s Image Editor.
Update from January 7 Bug Scrub
- There are no open accessibility issues for 5.9, but we’re keeping an eye on the About Page;
- There’s an open ticket milestoned for 5.9.1, which is either a Gutenberg or a Twenty Twenty-Two theme issue;
- There are 9 tickets in the awaiting review queue; and
- There are already 17 tickets milestoned for 6.0.
Open Floor
@sabernhardt requested at least one more reviewer for a developer note about theme-focused tickets (such as the toolbar scroll padding, the header image alt attribute, and the RSS widget icon). Please reach out directly if interested.
@ryokuhi closed the meeting with a quick reminder that next bug-scrub will be on Friday, January 14th at 16:00 UTC and the next Team Meeting will be on Friday, January 21st at 17:00 UTC.