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  • WordPress 4.1 Field Notes

    The release of WordPress 4.1 is imminent. By now, you should have already been testing and preparing your plugins and themes. I wanted to highlight a couple of posts here over the last few months on changes in WordPress 4.1.  This is by no means a complete summary of everything that has changed, but will…

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  • Recap of December 16, 2014 Meeting

    Slack log (Requires SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account) Status of Lesson Plans in Progress Managing Media (@mikemueller) Mike shrank the video down to 4mb and was able to…

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  • Theme review team weekly notes The logs are…

    Theme review team weekly notes The logs are here: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1418752733002887 Notes: Both weekly meetings are to be paused due to holidays, next one is the 6th January 2015. During the holidays a lot of us are taking time out to spend with family and recharge. The rate of themes should slow down, but this is…

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  • Agenda for December 16, 2014

    Agenda: New people in the training chat Status of lesson plans in progress Lesson Plan, status (done/copyedited/etc), issues New lesson plan assignments Do you need a new/first assignment? Other Items Copy Editor update Style Guide Update Login to Reply

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  • Resources

    Please visit the Accessibility Team’s documentation site for information about: Start with accessibility Standards and best practice Test for accessibility WordPress and Accessibility

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  • Accessibility-Ready Theme Requirements

    The “Guidelines for the WordPress accessibility-ready tag” are listed and explained with 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…

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  • Last week Morgan Kay an experienced WordCamp organizer…

    Last week Morgan Kay, an experienced 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 the joy. Learn more. organizer whom I vetted and approved to be lead organizer of…

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  • Recommended

    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)-ready requirements have been updated on May 6,…

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  • Russian translate

    Need to approve Russian translate before release the 4.1… Login to ReplyClear to-do

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  • RC2 and release dry run

    Various issues which came up over the weekend have meant that we’ve decided to delay the release of 4.1 by another 24 hours. The new target release date is Wednesday 17th December. It doesn’t serve anybody well to delay things this late in the day, but it’s essential to ensure the late fixes which have landed in…

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