Stefano Minoia 5:30 pm on July 15, 2022
Tags: accessibility ( 45 ), team reps ( 30 )

Call for Team Rep Nomination – July 2022

As announced during the last weekly meeting, we’re opening a call for (at least) one new 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 RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.. I’ve been Team Rep for more than two years, which is twice the usual time, but I stayed in the role to support @alexstine and @joesimpsonjr. They are incredibly hard workers, but, right now, they are committed to many aspects of the Team and WordPress, including organizing events such as 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. US and the WordPress Accessibility Day: it would be unfair to leave them alone in the role.

To learn more about the role, you can check the article about what it means to be a Team Rep. Here are the main takeaways.

Team Rep is an administrative role, not a Lead one.
Letting go of the Team Rep title is not a loss of status, just a handing off of responsibilities.
Someone who is a leader in a team can lead whether they are doing the team rep job or not.

Traditionally, the Accessibility Team has had two Team Reps, which allows them to share responsibilities, divide tasks and cover each other when needed. Since the election of @joesimpsonjr, we switched to having three Team Reps (at least temporarily) to reduce the burden even more.

If you would like to be considered for the role or know someone who would be a great fit, you have the opportunity to nominate yourself or others by adding a comment to this post. Remember that if someone proposes your name, but you don’t feel like accepting, you should feel more than free to say no: we will consider your nomination only if you agree.

Nominations review will happen during the meeting on Friday, August 5, 2022, at 17:00 UTC. We’ll decide if and how to manage the voting round, depending on the number of submissions. During the transition period, we will support the new Team Reps to be ready and operational as soon as they feel like it.

If you have questions about the Team Rep role or the nomination process, please feel free to reach out to @alexstine, @joesimpsonjr, or me (@ryokuhi) in the comments or on 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/., either with a Direct Message or in the #accessibility channel.

Props go to @alexstine and @joesimpsonjr for reviewing this post before publication.

#team-reps

Joe A Simpson Jr 12:03 am on August 5, 2022

Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: August 5, 2022

This is the proposed agenda for the weekly 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 on Friday, August 5, 2022, 16:00 UTC.

Revisit: Are there candidates for the role of Accessibility Team RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.?
@poena to discuss the accessibility of pattern previews included in theme pages;
Updates from working groups:
- Design
- Documentation
- General
- GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
- Media
- MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.
- 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, August 5, 2022, 15:00 UTC.

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

Stefano Minoia 12:03 am on August 5, 2022
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: July 15, 2022

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 happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our 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/. channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.

Team involvement at 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. US 2022 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.

WordCamp US is happening in person in San Diego, California, with Contributor Day on Sunday, September 11th. The organizing team reached out to all the teams for Table Leads for the event and shared a post containing specific information.

@joedolson and @joesimpsonjr will be both attending. @alexstine will maybe spend a short time there, but not the entire day.

A short discussion followed about possible activities and issues that might arise.

Activities during Contributor Day revolve mainly around sharing accessibility information with contributors, and helping them understand what is needed to get started. @joedolson suggested focusing on mechanisms and learning, as this is more effective than fixing problems or resolving issues during the event.

Contributor Days are difficult to handle, because it’s hard to predict who will show up: both new and experienced contributors might attend, and they have completely different needs. Having more than one person to run things allow to have different processes for people with various levels of knowledge and skills.

If you’re interested in taking a role during WordCamp US Contributor Day, need more details, or want to propose a possible activity, reach out to @joesimpsonjr on Slack. A rough agenda will be discussed through direct messages with people involved or during next meeting.

Updates from the working groups

Only groups that provided updates are shown below.

General

@ryokuhi reported that since last meeting the Team has been focusing on the 21 tickets milestoned for 6.1. The last bug scrub was very productive, with at least a couple of tickets almost ready for commit.

GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/

During the last bug scrub, the Team reviewed again the ticket about adding the accessibility-ready label to the Twenty Twenty-Two theme. Until there’s a mechanism to get a complete list of all blocks and variations for testing, it will be really difficult to close it. If such a list would be available, part of WordCamp US Contributor Day could maybe be dedicated to testing 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 consistent API and user experience. output (also) using assistive technologies.

@alexstine has been working through a significant change to keyboard navigation in Gutenberg Pull Request 41645: it still has a few bugs, but would benefit from some testing.

Media

@joedolson has been short on time to work on media, and hopes to make significant progress next week. There wasn’t a lot of feedback on open issues, anyway.

Open floor

@ryokuhi reported that the Call for Team Reps had been written and reviewed, and it was published after the meeting.

@joesimpsonjr and @joedolson shared the Call for Speakers for WordPress Accessibility Day, inviting contributors to apply and share.

#meeting-notes

alexstine 3:52 pm on July 14, 2022
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: July 15, 2022

Team involvement at WCUS 2022 contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/..
Updates from working groups:
- Design
- Documentation
- General
- GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
- Media
- MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.
- 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, July 15, 2022, 15:00 UTC.

#agenda

Joe A Simpson Jr 11:26 pm on July 9, 2022
Tags: accessibility ( 45 ), meeting notes ( 102 )

Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: July 1, 2022

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 happen on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our 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/. channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.

1. Accessibility Team Rep Discussion

@ryokuhi mentioned that he’s served as Team RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. over two years 9since June 2020) and he will be stepping away. What is the best approach to move forward? Currently a role shared with Joe and Alex, elections could be held now or later in September. Agreement that the elections should happen sooner than later, Stefano will remain until end of year if the role isn’t filled.

The normal process is to publish a post on the Accessibility Team’s blog and ask (or propose) contributors for the role and based on replies move foward. @joedolson nominated @sabernhardt during the discussion.

2. Updates for the working groups starting with General Team

@ryokuhi provided a status for General, sharing that the Proposed Schedule for WordPress 6.1 has been published. There are currently 20 tickets in the milestone, with 11 bug scrubs to take care of them, so we have plenty of time for that.

3. Documentaton Team

@joedolson proposed a change to the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party handbook a few weeks ago, but there hasn’t been any movement on the issue. @Hauwa Abashiya will plan to view this week.

4. Media Team update

Joe Dolson is working on the image editor with hopes of releasing it in July.

#accessibility, #meeting-notes

Julia Golomb 8:25 pm on July 7, 2022
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alexstine 2:21 am on June 30, 2022
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: July 1, 2022

Accessibility Team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. discussion.
Updates from working groups:
- Design
- Documentation
- General
- GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/
- Media
- MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.
- 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, July 1, 2022, 15:00 UTC.

#agenda

Joe A Simpson Jr 4:55 pm on June 22, 2022
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: June 17, 2022

Team contributions to the Developer Resources blog

@bph joined our meeting to get in touch with our Team Reps regarding how we might be involved (editorial board) in a new blog project for the developer.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ website. A follow up should be out next week or so. Discussion points included:

The time this extra activity would stretch the team reps may drain resources needed here.
This could be a good opportunity to bring content added to our team’s documentation to a broader public.
@Hauwa Abashira offered to coordinate efforts between Learn and Accessibility; and
If you have other questions or if you want to be part of this effort, contact Birgit via Direct Message.

Pull Request about accessibility enhancements to Writing Flow in Gutenberg

@alexstine reported that this is a big improvement for blocks that are not single fields such as paragraph, heading, list, etc. There are 2 major adjustments. Kudos to Alex for this massive achievement.

No team updates or Open Floor items Due to the length of the discussion and updates a brief period was set aside here. Next week, bug scrub.

#meeting-notes

alexstine 2:23 pm on June 15, 2022
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: June 17, 2022

Can the Accessibility Team help contribute to Developer Resources?
Discussion of GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ PR Writing flow: A11Y enhancements for useTabNav. Related discussion: Improve keyboard navigation experience in all the block editors.
Updates from working groups:
- Design
- Documentation
- General
- Gutenberg
- Media
- MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.
- Themes
Open floor