Sorry, I was away last week and didn’t get an update published. Great things have been happening lately. Let’s take a look.
- Gutenberg 5.6 is released! Yay!
- Usability testing is being performed weekly.
- Accessibility audit of Gutenberg has been released.
Gutenberg 5.6 improvements
- New focus state for the Button block.
- Reduced specificity of block styles to make it easier for themes to style the editor.
- Restore block movers in focus mode.
- Remove redundant CSS styles.
Usability testing
Usability tests are being conducted weekly to evaluate Gutenberg. Posts will be published on make/test to share the videos so that everyone can comment and share their observations.
Accessibility audit
The accessibility audit performed by Tenon, LLC. through WPCampus has been released. There were several issues created in Github. The Gutenberg team, Accessibility team, and others are triaging them. Several were found to be either duplicates or Core bugs that required work beyond Gutenberg. Many of the other issues already have conversations leading to well-thought solutions. There’s been amazing collaboration between WordPress.org teams with this effort!
Tightening up
- Two great PRs have been introduced around nested blocks.
- Social media block
- Update the Heading block icon
- Explorations around merging the Document Outline and Block Navigation
- Heading level notices
Thanks for reading, staying informed, and contributing anywhere you can!