On Thursday, November 13, 2025, 15:00 UTC, a team meeting started in #accessibility facilitated by Nasim Miah. You can read the full transcript or see the meeting agenda.
Biweekly Team Meeting Time Update
The bi-weekly chat meeting time has changed to alternate Thursdays at 15:00 UTC, and the meeting calendar is also updated.
- WordPress 6.9 RC1 is released.
- Template management is no longer part of 6.9 release cycle and has been punted to 7.0
The release leads have also updated the docs accordingly. - Get ready for 6.9 RC2
Updates from working groups
@joedolson shared a documentation update on behalf of @rianrietveld:
- wpaccessibility.org now has a proper search function.
- Several documentation updates about webforms are under review and expected to be published soon.
- The new “Debunking accessibility myths” page is available here: https://wpaccessibility.org/docs/start/myths/overlays/
- Rian is also working on implementing the new design, after which the WCAG EM-audit can begin.
A key reminder: contributors should contact @rianrietveld before starting work on any documentation section, and should not submit PRs for issues that already have an assigned owner.
@joedolson also noted ongoing problems with PRs containing AI-written documentation, which currently does not meet quality standards.
On the topic of the accessibility profile badge, @joedolson suggested that contributors working on accessibility documentation should be eligible.
- Nasim Miah agreed, noting it encourages consistent, quality contributions.
- Both agreed badge criteria may need clearer standards, aligned with other teams.
- Increased Profile Associations requests were noted; Nasim Miah also observed this trend.
- @joedolson said smaller contributions are still considered, but must meet reasonable quality.
@joedolson reported that with the release of 6.9 RC1, work is now shifting toward preparing for 7.0. This week’s bug scrub focused on new tickets on Trac that were awaiting review, and most of those have been milestoned for the 7.0 release.
Next week, the focus will shift to older tickets, prioritizing ones that need attention.
In this release, 33 accessibility issues were resolved on Trac and 43 issues were resolved on GitHub.
@joedolson shared that all new Gutenberg features should continue to be tested during the Release Candidate phase, and accessibility bugs should be resolved before release.
Features that didn’t make it into 6.9 — such as Tabs Block, Icons Block, and Template Management are likely candidates for 7.0.
He also noted that major items requiring attention are listed in the Release Progress document:
https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/current-release-progress/
🗓️ Next Meeting Schedule
@joedolson noted that the next meeting is currently set for November 27th, which falls during the US Thanksgiving holiday, meaning many contributors will be unable to attend. He proposed skipping the meeting or shifting it by a week.
Nasim Miah agreed, saying it makes sense to skip the November 27th meeting and resume on December 4th instead.
@joedolson confirmed he will update the calendar and ensure the change is clearly noted in the meeting minutes.
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.
Thank you, @joedolson for the pre-publish review.