alexstine 8:31 pm on September 8, 2021

Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: September 10, 2021

This is the proposed agenda for the weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Friday, September 10, 2021 at 04:00 PM UTC.

Updates from working groups
- Design
- Documentation
- General
- Gutenberg
- Media
- Meta
- Themes
Open floor

If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post.

The Accessibility Team bug-scrub will be held on Friday, September 10, 2021 at 03:00 PM UTC.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress Slack (requires registration).

#agenda

alexstine 8:28 pm on September 8, 2021

Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: September 3, 2021

These are the weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.

Updates from working groups

Only working groups that provided updates are shown below.

Documentation

The Test team wanted to know if there were any documented processes by the Accessibility team on how to properly test for accessibility issues/regressions. The idea here is to document the most common environments/setups used for testing by the Accessibility team. This way everyone will know how to check for accessibility issues. If anyone would like to assist in refining our documentation, please speak with @azhiyadev.

General

There hasn’t been much going on in General with preparations for WordPress 5.8.1. One ticket that did get fixed for this release is #53641: Can not configure image widget (and others) in widget accessability mode.

Gutenberg

Gallery Block Refactor has some nice accessibility wins in the form of enabling each image in a gallery to have easy to add alt text now.
11.3 included the new Dimensions panel to start building out more options there for different blocks. This led to dimension controls being added for things like the featured image block.
11.4 included a change allowing for child blocks to absorb parent block controls. It needs testing and iteration, including trying it out in various blocks. There’s more discussion on how best to approach this here.
The latest FSE Call for Testing led to a number of issues opened around the navigation block and improving accessibility. Recap to come asap.
Gutenberg PR that could use some accessibility testing. Improve file block download button accessibility

Media

A change is coming in WordPress 5.8.1 which will adjust the number of media items that load after Load More button is selected. Other than that, just a few small odds and ends.

Themes

There is only one new theme awaiting review for the Accessibility Ready tag.

Open floor

Nothing for Open floor this week.

#meeting-notes

Joe Dolson 8:33 pm on September 8, 2021

It’s also worth noting that during the meeting, our meeting note taker suffered an unexpected and unexplained data loss in Gutenberg, losing the entire post. This led to a discussion of frustrations with issues in Gutenberg where the team would really like to see a release cycle focused on polishing bugs rather than feature development. We’re aware, of course, that the Make site network uses Gutenberg trunk, which can lead to stability problems, but it exposes some of the types of frustrations people have on a daily basis that can create a bad feeling for the product. See: http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20210909145543/https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP4X03/p1630687004075200

alexstine 1:49 am on September 2, 2021

Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: September 3, 2021

This is the proposed agenda for the weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Friday, September 3, 2021 at 04:00 PM UTC.

Updates from working groups
- Design
- Documentation
- General
- Gutenberg
- Media
- Meta
- Themes
Open floor

If you want to have a topic added to the agenda, please mention it in the comments of this post.

The Accessibility Team bug-scrub will be held on Friday, September 3, 2021 at 03:00 PM UTC.

This meeting is held in the #accessibility channel in the Making WordPress Slack (requires registration).

#agenda

annezazu 6:34 pm on September 2, 2021

Wanted to provide a quick update around Gutenberg!

Gallery Block Refactor has some nice accessibility wins in the form of enabling each image in a gallery to have easy to add alt text now.
11.3 included the new Dimensions panel to start building out more options there for different blocks . This led to dimension controls being added for things like the featured image block.
11.4 included a change allowing for child blocks to absorb parent block controls. It needs testing and iteration, including trying it out in various blocks. There’s more discussion on how best to approach this here.
The latest FSE Call for Testing led to a number of issues opened around the navigation block and improving accessibility. Recap to come asap.

alexstine 4:18 am on September 3, 2021

Gutenberg PR that could use some testing with all screen readers.

http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20210909145543/https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/28062

Carolina Nymark 9:13 am on September 3, 2021

No updates from themes. One theme with the accessibility-ready tag is in the review queue.

alexstine 10:19 pm on August 20, 2021

Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: August 20, 2021