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.
Changes to the “Transform to” button and block “movers” in Gutenberg
The team discussed the newly updated controls in the block toolbar for the ‘Transform to’ and ‘movers’ actions. The new design proposes quite a few substantial changes and this has raised accessibility concerns within the team.
@afercia noted a few problems, such as a missing ‘grab area’ and the ‘hand’ mouse pointer now being used for interactive controls. Other team members also raised questions about the obviousness of this new user interface.
A summary of the team’s feedback has been posted on the issue for follow up.
Add a ‘description’ property to block patterns
We also discussed this Gutenberg issue that proposes to add a ‘description’ property to the newly added feature of Block Patterns.
The team raised arguments around the requirement of such a property, and the pros and cons behind such a rule. We decided that the property should be labeled as required while not being enforced with any checks.
With this feedback, @poena proceeded to finish and merge the corresponding PR. 🎉