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. My apologies for the delay and combined meeting notes. Thanks in advance for your understanding.
Updates from the working groups
Only groups that provided updates are shown below.
Team Updates
- @travel_girl shared: Destructive UI is still on my bucket list but it will not happen this year.
Documentation Working Group: - @joedolson shared this updated ahead of the meeting for comment: I’m working on some of the tasks for 6.5; currently in the customizer – and will be publishing the call for accessibility allies soon, probably tomorrow. He also mentioned and is trying to move a number of old tasks from “worked on but not finished” to “finished”.
Gutenberg Working Group: - @annezazu shared this update for comment/discussion:
Hallway Hangout: Working session on consolidating various navigation modes happening on the 15th.
Render Selected Block Tools in Header when using Top Toolbar was merged after two different proof of concept PRs.
Alongside that above PR, the following PRs were merged to support it:
Migrate keyboard-navigable-blocks e2e tests from puppeteer to playwright
Escape on Block Toolbar returns focus to Editor Canvas
Refactor Selected Block Tools
Refactor Site Editor Document Tools Navigation to own component
Refactor Edit Widgets Document Tools Navigation to own component
Resizeable box (for resizing cover block) should use after block popover slot
Only render block toolbar if blockType has value
Move document tools motion to header-edit-mode layout level
Move clientId key to BlockContextualToolbar
In terms of upcoming work, here’s a recently opened issue: Be more specific when handling escape deselect from block editor.
Data Views work continues with an overview issue here. This is a high impact area to be aware of with lots of work happening.
- Joe reported that Meta is still working on the website redesign; feedback is always welcome in #website-redesign
- Joe Dolson broached discussion on the fututre of the bug scrub, summarized here:
Possible changes effective in January depending on approach decided on:
- Different time/date. The current scrub falls at the end of the European work day on Friday, which guarantees difficult participation for that region. Moving to an earlier time or different day may help;
- Encourage variable times. Instead of having a regular bug scrub led by one person, have different people do different times/dates;
- Do not have a regularly scheduled scrub. This does not mean we don’t scrub issues; it just means it isn’t a regularly scheduled plan; and
- Finally, we have a problem with engagement on accessibility tickets. How can we get people to take on tasks?
Proposed going to the 2nd and 4th weeks of the month, on the opposite schedule of the meeting, and moving to Tuesday at 14:00 UTC (to avoid conflicting with A11y Office Hours)?
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.