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Accessibility Team meeting notes – April 3, 2020
These are the weekly notes for the accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) team meeting that…
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Showing online workshops in the Events Widget
This post is similar to @iandunn‘s post, “Showing Online WordCamps in the Events Widget”, but in this case we are talking about Community workshops. The topic has come up because of the Diverse Speaker workshop on April 14-16. Other online global community workshops are likely to follow. In the second Community Team chat Thursday, we were discussing…
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Hello Polyglots,
I have suggested stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. for the en_za localeLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all…
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Accessibility & Online Streaming
It came to our attention recently that the Community Team selected Crowdcast to handle video streaming for the online adaptation of WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share…
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Online conference platform concerns
As I mentioned in one of our team meetings yesterday, I made the call to provide support for community events to use Crowdcast as an online event platform a few weeks ago, without testing whether the tool was fully accessible. Unfortunately, Crowdcast doesn’t meet the community team’s needs for accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y)…
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Hello Polyglots, I am the…
Hello Polyglots, I am the plugin author for https://wordpress.org/plugins/conveythis-translate/ – ConveyThis Translate Multilingual Plugin. We are looking for volunteers who can check our translations or become PTE for their respective locales: #es_ES — it_IT #fr_FR #zh_CN Thank you in advance! #editor-requests Login to ReplyClear to-do
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Proposal: GitHub Theme Review
As you all know, theme review is one of the things we at the Theme Review Team are doing a lot. We are doing other things, but taking care of the themes repository and checking the quality of themes at wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This…
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PTE Request: en_za for Yoast SEO and Others
Hello Polyglots, I have suggested stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. for the en_za localeLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list…
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Block-Based Theme Meeting Notes for 1 April 2020
This post summarizes the latest bi-weekly BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single…
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Proposal: When langpack is created, always send the new updates on the the project translation (even if below 95%)
This is a fragmented proposal of “Delete project’s language pack when below specific percentage”. We had feedback from the following users, and that helped to create this new proposal: @fierevere, @tobifjellner, @wolly, @nao, @ocean90, @knutsp, @yordansoares, @casiepa, and @swissspidy. Description: If the pack has been created for the project and it goes below 95%, we…