The Accessibility Team had a great turnout for Contributor Day at WordCamp Europe, including 14 people who were new to the accessibility team. Thank you to everyone who participated!
@joedolson and @alh0319 led two tables, focusing on accessibility testing themes that had requested the Accessibility Ready tag and addressing open accessibility tickets in core and Gutenberg.
During the day, contributors accomplished the following…
Accessibility-Ready Theme Review
Several contributors reviewed all four themes that had requested the accessibility-ready tag. They provided feedback to theme developers about elements that need to be fixed before the themes can be approved for the tag.
@rianrietveld started reviewing the current accessibility-ready requirements and is putting together a doc with suggested updates and possible new items to include. The current accessibility-ready requirements are many years old and outdated. This doc is a work in progress, but the idea is to update the accessibility-ready tag requirements so themes with it will provide a better starting point to align with current best practices and accessibility standards.
@alh0319 is building a tool to walk contributors and developers through testing themes for the accessibility-ready tag. The idea for this tool is to make it easier for anyone to determine if a theme meets the accessibility-ready requirements and to generate reports that can be easily posted in Trac when the tag is requested.
We’ve also opened an issue to update the accessibility theme unit test data to better support accessibility testing of block-based and full site editing themes.
Core Tickets Worked On
Contributors worked on testing issues that have been reported and reviewing patches for tickets. The following tickets were worked on:
- Audit the usage of `aria-haspopup` in the admin menu: New patch completed to resolve issue
- Dynamically added notifications need ARIA role alert or status: Patch tested and confirmed
- Improve and extend focus styles for Windows High Contrast mode: Significant testing completed; some new issues identified and raised.
- The links “hover” color has insufficient color contrast: Significant testing completed
- Post editing area: keyboard accessibility, tab order and focus: Significant testing completed
Committed: #40331
Thank You to Contributors
Thank you to all the contributors who helped in-person in Italy and virtually via Slack! Here are some of the people who contributed:
- @alanfuller
- @alexapeduzzi
- @alh0319
- @Benjamin_Zekavica
- @christophermhinds
- @ireneyoast
- @joedolson
- @krokodok
- @marcoacato
- @marinakoleva
- @nuritnt
- @rade1
- @rianrietveld
- @rcreators
- @samuelsilvapt
- @tdrayson
- @zex2911
Please leave a comment if we missed you, and I will add you to the list of contributors.