On Thursday, September 18, 2025, at 15:00 UTC, a team meeting started in #accessibility facilitated by @krupajnanda. 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.
Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.9
The bug scrub schedule for WordPress 6.9 has been prepared for its upcoming release.
Announcing the Core Program Team
The recent launch of the Core Program team, which is an expansion of the previous Core AI Team program model.
Updates from working groups
@rianrietveld reported that the team has been working to make wpaccessibility.org ready for contributions. They have copied all accessibility content from the current handbook into the new site and created placeholder pages for new content. @1fixdotio has implemented a preview option for Pull Requests so contributors can review proposed content without a local install.
@rianrietveld also suggested including more people to work on the content of the documentation, and provides a list of Todo issues for people to contribute to, but cautions that contributors should only work on topics they know well, as AI is not yet very good at accessibility.
Aminul will work on the migration of the current handbook to a new GitHub repo, accessibility-team-handbook
Only the Accessibility Team-related info will stay in that handbook.
@joedolson reported that @alh0319 raised several new tickets that were reviewed in the bug scrub last week.
@joedolson has raised comments on the Icon block and Block Commenting in Gutenberg, and needs to review the Tab block and Accordion block.
@joedolson reopened the discussion on whether to import alt text from image metadata, noting the pros and cons both.
Updated the Current Release tracking document.
@alh0319 will be working on converting existing documents into markdown and adding them to a repository in the WP Accessibility organisation so that we can coordinate with other docs processes.
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, @muddassirnasim, for the pre-publish review.