These are the bi-weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript here or see the full meeting schedule.
Updates from the working groups
NOTE: Only groups that provided updates are shown below.
Team Updates
- @Dani Guardiola has stepped up to do a review of the Accessibility Handbook and start updating it. @joedolson has already fixed a handful of issues in the Handbook thanks to Dani’s feedback.
Team Updates
Here’s the latest for the General Working Group.
- Lots of progress recently on trac tickets, so things have been moving forward at reasonable pace in core. Joe also shared that we’re currently in the Release Candidate phase, so enhancements for 6.6 are closed.
Team Updates
@annezazu shared this update from the Gutenberg Working Group:
Pulled from last week’s Core updates:
- Grid layout: Stabilise grid layout visualiser and resizer saw a bonus aspect of the grid layout work land, offering a visual way to resize. Tied to this, a recent change makes the outlines of the visualizer easier to see based on the text color.
- Unify publish flows: Curious to hear from folks around a change to the Revisions panel making it behind a three dot menu (adding an extra step) rather than displaying it as a top level item in the post sidebar. For scheduled posts, a PR is underway to ensure the publish date control selection is shown within the modal.
- Block shadows: Edit/create shadows in global styles landed and is in a solid spot for the release.
- Block Hooks: after more research and experiments, work to Add support for block name aliases for variations is being mostly pushed to 6.6 except for items from this list, which should all be significantly lower risk, and prepare the ground for the bigger changes (for are targeted for 6.7).
- Inserter: a PR landed to show all blocks when searching for blocks while a block is selected. The current experience shows either a limited set or no blocks depending on allowed blocks.
- Data Views: a recent PR bootstraps an API to allow third-party developers to register and unregister post type actions. This is going to be available in the Gutenberg plugin only for now and is not planned for 6.7 but relates to the overall efforts.
- Accessibility: review and join a discussion around a recently opened issue for Consistent Sidebar DOM and Open/Closing Interactions.
Joe stated that there was a project to merge the code base for the site editor and the post editor. That has created a few new accessibility problems that need to be ironed out; I don’t know whether that will happen in time, but we’ll see.
@Amber Hinds is starting to work through the backlog of accessibility-ready theme reviews.
- Media is continuing to work through issues; but most major work is being slowed due to the future planning for the media library redesign.
- Meta is continuing to work on the site redesign; work is currently mostly in Learn.
@joesimpsonjr shared three items for consideration/discussion:
- WordCamp Europe kicks off next week. Anything to share on Contributor Day or the event to share at this time?
- The Accessibility Team is in need of new Team Reps to take over for Alex and myself who have served two plus years. @nhrrob has shown interest and would like more info on what the role entails (Alex has shared some basic info). Alex also mentioned a short voting period as part of the process as well. If you are interested, please reach out;
- WordCamp US happens in August in Portland, OR. Are there any folks from the team planning on attending the event AND contributor day? Joe is NOT planning on attending, unfortunately.
- @amberhinds shared this thread for our Accessibility Team plans for WCEU. Joe and Amber are leading the Contributor Day table at WCEU; Amber is focusing on doing theme accessibility reviews and Joe is focusing on developer onboarding and tickets.
- Team Reps: I’m open to stepping back on with @nhrrob
- Amber and Joe will be at WCUS as well.
NOTE: If you’d like to have a topic added to the agenda for our next meeting, please mention it in the comments on an upcoming agenda.