Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: March 26, 2026

These is the bi-weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on alternate Thursday in #accessibility. You can read the full transcript here or see the full meeting schedule.

1. WordPress 7.0 RC2 released
2. Only a week to go for WCAsia2026

Working Group Updates

Docs

@rianrietveld shared the updates for docs team as mentioned below.

• New and updated documentation has been published on wpaccessibility.org
  • Frontend code: Handling visual and keyboard focus, with subpages addressing:
    • Tabindex and tab order
    • Visual focus
    • Trapping focus
    • Restoring focus
    • Autofocus
    • Focus and hover interactions
    • Keyboard traps
  • Forms: No positive tabindex.
  • Design and user experience: Styling focus and hover states of interactive HTML elements.
  • Training
    • Start with accessibility: How to get training to learn web accessibility, with subpages addressing:
    • Online training
    • Books
    • Online events
    • Knowledge resources
    • Education & Discussion Groups

• Work is ongoing to extend and update documentation around alternative text (alt text) for images in WordPress
  • The goal is to make it useful not just for content creators, but also for developers

• There is an active discussion around introducing a “Can I Use” section for core blocks
  • This would highlight the accessibility status of each block, helping users understand current support and limitations both.

Generic Updates was shared by @joedolson. He is currently working on preparing the post about accessibility changes in WordPress 7.0 release and working on identifying tickets targeted for 7.1 release.

He mentioned that most focus right now should be on testing 7.0, to ensure that any new issues or regressions are caught before the actual release.

@joedolson also mentioned that the work on the theme accessibility-ready updates has been delayed due to the complexity of last-minute changes in WordPress 7.0 release. It is expected to resume post-release.

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