These are the weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript here.
Updates from the working groups
Only groups that provided updates are shown below.
Media Team
Here’s a status update from @joedolson and the Media team:
- Patches for #50523 & #26381 are ready and could use testing/opinions. Please try these patches and make comments. These need to go in early to make it into 6.3.
General Team
@joedolson provided the following updates on General Team for discussion:
- Feedback on #15631 and #32170 would be appreciated.It is sortable columns and is fairly extensive. All of the tickets are in the “could be ready to commit stage”.
Gutenberg Team
@annezazu reported: A few notes — some accessibility testing for the navigation block with the interactivity API: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP4X03/p1684403764422519
Also the 6.3 roadmap is now out in the open: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/05/18/roadmap-to-6-3/ I’m working on a next call for testing and hoping to post today to go through some of the in progress features :heart: Folks are always welcome to participate.
Open floor
@joedolson noted that WCEU is in three weeks and is looking forward to accessibility conversations that will be had there. He’ll be in Athens from June 6-13 and can chat about a11y at any time. He has an interest in bringing people in long term with more teaching about how to contribute to WordPress.
@joesimpsonjr shouted out Design Team’s @chaion07 for his appearance on the WP Tavern podcast about Contributing to WordPress as a non-developer.. He also asked about plans for Contributor Day at WordCamp US in National Harbor in August.
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