Krupa Nanda 11:15 am on April 30, 2026  

Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: April 23, 2026

These is the bi-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 alternate Thursday in #accessibility. You can read the full transcript here or see the full meeting schedule.

Working Group Updates

Docs

New and updated documentation: about alternative text for images, headings and links plus an introduction to WCAGWCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/..

Work in progress: documentation about how to test for accessibility, update of the info about the accessibility-ready tag in the themes handbook and figure out a section “Can I use”.

General

In bug scrubs, focus has been on assigning tickets for the 7.1 release, with 22 tickets currently milestoned. Due to the extended 7.0 release cycle, several new interfaces; mainly in 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/; still need review. Since the 7.1 schedule isn’t finalized yet, no significant increase in tickets is expected for now.

Gutenberg

Focus has been on reviewing new coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. features, particularly visual revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision., with many areas still needing attention. While work continues on client-side media and the tabs 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., priority remains on features planned for the 7.0 release.

Key references include visual history updates and improvements to the Admin Font Library. There is a strong need for more review time to identify and raise issues, especially for features that haven’t yet been evaluated. Notably, real-time collaboration has not undergone accessibility testing yet. Contributors are encouraged to explore and help identify any gaps.

Themes

Progress on themes has been limited due to other priorities.

Thank you @joedolson and @rianrietveld for sharing the updates on working group.

NOTE: If you’d like to have a topic added to the agenda for our next meeting, please mention it in the comments on an upcoming agenda.

Rian Rietveld 8:58 am on April 30, 2026
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WP A11y Docs update April 2026

New and updated documentation: about alternative text for images, headings and links plus an introduction to WCAGWCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/.. Featured content: Styling links.

Work in progress: documentation about how to test for 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), update of the info about the accessibility-ready tag in the themes handbook and figure out a section “Can I use”.

New and updated content, added in April 2026:

Work in progress

At the moment we are working on extending and updating the docs about how to web accessibility.

In May ’26 we want to update the information in the Themes handbook about the accessibility-ready tag. We updated the guidelines and the current info on Themes handbook about accessibility is outdated.

We are also discussing if and how to set up a “Can I Use” section for coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. blocks. With the status per 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. about its accessibility. All input is appreciated, we want to set something up that is not a ton of work, but is findable and informative for users. This may be a good topic to work on 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. Europe ’26.

All feedback on the documentation is very much welcome.

#accessibility-ready, #wp-a11y-docs

Krupa Nanda 4:04 pm on April 22, 2026  

Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: April 23, 2026

This is the proposed agenda for the bi-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 Thursday, April 23, 2026 15:00 UTC

Updates from the working group

  • 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/
  • 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 is every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC, held in the #accessibility channel on the Make 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/ (registration required).

Krupa Nanda 9:45 am on April 3, 2026
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Aki Hamano 3:14 am on April 3, 2026
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Contribute to Accessibility at WordCamp Asia 2026 Contributor Day

WordCamp Asia 2026 is coming soon! This year’s WCAsia will take place in Mumbai, India, from April 9 to 11, 2026. 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 works to make WordPress as accessible as possible for as many people as possible, and we are always looking for new contributors. We look forward to meeting many people who are interested in accessibility at Contributor Day.

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/ Schedule

Important Note: Remote support is available during the following hours:

What Should I Prepare to Contribute?

The most important thing is your desire to make WordPress accessible. Whether your interests are in code, testing, or documentation, we will guide you to the best way to contribute. If you would like to contribute with code, we recommend setting up a local development environment in advance.

If you are joining online, please join the #accessibility 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 feel free to say hello to us.

Our Goals

One of the main goals of Contributor Day is to welcome contributors who are interested in accessibility and guide them on how to get involved. Below are some examples of specific goals:

  • Contribute to Documentation: Learn what documentation exists and how it is managed. Read the documentation and report areas that could be improved. Write new documentation.
  • Contribute to Code: Set up a development environment. Identify accessibility-related issues. Learn how to work on those issues.
  • Contribute to Testing: Test accessibility-related issues. Test WordPress and identify and report accessibility problems.

About Table Leads

Experienced members will support you. Please feel free to ask any questions—about what accessibility is, how you can contribute, what is required to contribute code, or anything else.

Helpful Resources

If you would like to learn about accessibility, we recommend reviewing the WP Accessibility Knowledge Base in advance. This document is a comprehensive accessibility guideline for WordPress and is continuously being improved. If you are interested in helping improve the documentation, please visit the GitHub repository.

Are you interested in contributing through testing or code? The Accessibility Handbook has a helpful page for finding accessibility-related tasks.

Another helpful resource is the Contributor Pathway for testing accessibility.

Props to @krupajnanda and @joedolson for peer review of this post.

#accessibility, #wcasia2026

Krupa Nanda 8:26 am on March 31, 2026
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: March 26, 2026

These is the bi-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 alternate Thursday in #accessibility. You can read the full transcript here or see the full meeting schedule.

  1. WordPress 7.0 RC2 released
  2. Only a week to go for WCAsia2026

Working Group Updates

Docs

@rianrietveld shared the updates for docs team as mentioned below.

  • Work is ongoing to extend and update documentation around alternative text (alt text) for images in WordPress
    • The goal is to make it useful not just for content creators, but also for developers
  • There is an active discussion around introducing a “Can I Use” section for coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. blocks
    • This would highlight the accessibility status of each 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., helping users understand current support and limitations both.

Generic Updates was shared by @joedolson. He is currently working on preparing the post about accessibility changes in WordPress 7.0 release and working on identifying tickets targeted for 7.1 release.

He mentioned that most focus right now should be on testing 7.0, to ensure that any new issues or regressions are caught before the actual release.

@joedolson also mentioned that the work on the theme accessibility-ready updates has been delayed due to the complexity of last-minute changes in WordPress 7.0 release. It is expected to resume post-release.

The upcoming bi-weekly meeting is cancelled in favour 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 the joy. Learn more. Asia activities.
Our next meeting will take place directly on 23rd April on a regular time 15:00 UTC

#accessibility, #meeting-notes

Rian Rietveld 9:54 am on March 30, 2026
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WP A11y Docs update March 2026

This update informs you about:

  • new and updated documentation on wpaccessibility.org;
  • work in progress.

New and updated documentation on wpaccessibility.org

  • Quick wins to improve 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) of your website.
  • The Reading guide, vistors now can find content by role or expertise instead of by topic only.
  • A Disclaimer, in short: This documentation is intended to help the WordPress community understand and implement accessible practices. It is not a replacement for the official Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Focus management

Training

Start with accessibility: How to get training to learn web accessibility, with subpages addressing:

Current handbook

We will wait with transferring the current Accessibility Team Handbook to GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ until later, we need to explain and discuss this in more detail with the 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. team. Maybe 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. Europe will be a good opportunity for this.

Work in progress

We are discussing if and how to set up a “Can I Use” section for coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. blocks (GitHub issue 294). With the status per core 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. about its accessibility. All input is appreciated.

Documentation we are working on to improve at the moment:

  • Alt text for images in the content and in theme development.
  • Headings in the content and in theme development.
  • Introduction to WCAGWCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/..
  • Accessibility for your business.
  • Legislation.

All feedback on the documentation is very much welcome.

#wp-a11y-docs

Krupa Nanda 10:39 am on March 25, 2026
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: March 26, 2026

This is the proposed agenda for the bi-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 Thursday, March 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM GMT+5:30

Updates from the working group

  • 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/
  • 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 is every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC, held in the #accessibility channel on the Make 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/ (registration required).

#accessibility, #agenda

Nasim Miah 5:53 pm on March 18, 2026
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Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: March 12, 2026

On Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 08:30 PM GMT+5:30, a team meeting started in #accessibility kicked of by Krupa Nanda. You can read the full transcript or see the meeting agenda.

  • Change in meeting time for next two meetings
    • There is the change in meeting time from next meetings till the release is over. (~ for 2-3 meetings). The new time is 19:00 UTC
  • Table Leads for 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. Asia 2026
    • 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 is looking for Table Leads for WordCamp Asia 2026 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/.
    • Contributor Day will take place on April 9, 2026, at the Jio World Convention Centre.
    • We may consider having two table leads: one onsite and one supporting remotely.
    • If you’re attending and willing to take on this role, please fill out the application form shared 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/ channel. Feel free to pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @krupajnanda for more details.
    • Remote support is also welcome.
  • It’s time to test real-time collaboration! With WordPress 7.0, real-time collaboration—the centerpiece 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/ Phase 3—lands in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. This is the first iteration, and there’s much more to come. But you can test it now!
  • Call For Feedback: Increasing Value of Release Party Testing Phase

Working Group Updates

Documentation

added Quick Wins and a Reading Guide (content by role/expertise), included a disclaimer that docs support the WordPress community but don’t replace WCAGWCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/... Currently work is done on documentation on focus management, alt text, WCAG intro, business accessibility, and legislation.

General Updates

@joedolson shared many updates, with a few items still being worked on.
Only one accessibility ticket remains open for the WordPress 7.0 milestone (likely won’t make it), 32 tickets were closed for 7.0, focus will shift to accessibility goals for 7.1 after RC1, and RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. is the key time to review and fix accessibility issues in new features before final release.

Gutenberg

Real-time collaboration needs accessibility testing (especially with screen readers); contributors should test RTC with multiple users editing simultaneously, coordinate testing with @joedolson, and also review visual revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. though they are less urgent.

Themes

So far no updates here.

The following two meetings will be scheduled at 19:00 UTC due to a timing conflict with the WordPress 7.0 release. After the release, we will return to our regular meeting time of 15:00 UTC. This change is temporary.

#accessibility, #meeting-notes

Krupa Nanda 6:35 am on March 11, 2026
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Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: March 12, 2026

This is the proposed agenda for the bi-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 Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 08:30 PM GMT+5:30

Updates from the working group

  • 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/
  • 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 is every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC, held in the #accessibility channel on the Make 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/ (registration required).

#accessibility, #agenda