These are the weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.
Updates from Working Groups
Only Working Groups that provided updates are shown below.
Design
@chaion07 highlighted these two proposals that might be worth looking in to.
General
- Today, there was a brief pause on tickets milestoned for 5.9 due to the reviewing of the Awaiting Review queue. It may be worth having an extra bug scrub considering we’re quickly approaching the release deadlines. There will be an extra bug scrub on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 16:00 UTC.
- Currently, there is also not an Accessibility Release Coordinator for 5.9. See the related Slack message here. Please message @audrasjb if you would like to volunteer or have further questions about the role. @alexstine offered to take this role if one other person would assist.
Gutenberg
- The official WordPress 5.9 Feature Go / No Go post has been published. There are some Gutenberg items included that the team may be interested in testing.
- The following GitHub issue needs testing and, if replicated, a patch. accessibility: impossible to add or edit a post’s title with Jaws for Windows screen reader activated
Media
- @priethor left a comment regarding infinite scroll in the Media Library. Our current plan is to discuss this during next weeks Accessibility meeting.
- @madtownlems is currently working on a plugin that may improve accessibility of existing images without Alt Text. The plugin is not yet publicly available, but we’ll let everyone know when it is ready for testing. @sabernhardt shared the following Trac ticket, containing some background about reusing Alt Text: improve the user interface to ensure correct usage of the image alt text.
Themes
While there were no updates from the Themes group today, it is likely time to start allocating some focus to the new Twenty Twenty-Two theme. This Twenty Twenty-Two GitHub Issue is currently tracking accessibility.
Open floor
Just a reminder to vote on which meeting time will work best for you. The poll will remain open until Friday, October 29, 2021 16:30 UTC.