This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, August 27, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements Help shape the Accessibility Lab plugin WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” was released on August 19th as scheduled! A call for volunteers was published for WP 7.2…. Continue Reading →
Introducing the Accessibility Lab plugin! The plugin aims to offer a combination of Core related experiments and practical tools that solve shared problems for all to benefit from. The goal is not to move accessibility fixes out of Core and… Continue Reading →
Just like Dreamweaver convinced a generation they could ignore HTML and CSS, Figma’s perfect canvas may be hiding the messy realities of how the web actually works. The future belongs to designers who understand systems, behavior, performance, and code—not just… Continue Reading →
WordPress 7.1 continues to polish accessibility across WordPress Core and Gutenberg, advancing the goals to meet accessibility standards. In this release, high-impact changes include the new accessible tooltips API, improved predictability for screen readers, and improved labeling in many places… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, August 13, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements 7.1 RC3 is scheduled to be released on Wed Aug 12th (today) 7.1 RC1 was released Wed August 5th. WordPress 7.1 Field Guide is published…. Continue Reading →
At WordCamp Europe Torino ’24, Joe Dolson asked Rian Rietveld to review the documentation about accessibility on the WordPress.org website. What she found was that the information was hard to find, scattered all around the place, with duplicated and incomplete… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, July 30, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements WordPress 7.0.2 Release is now available. WordPress 7.1 Beta 3 is out is ready for download and testing! WordPress 7.1 Beta1 4 Release is… Continue Reading →
When we announced the new accessibility-ready theme guidelines in May, the accessibility time set an ambitious timeline to re-review all themes and require action from theme authors by June 30th of this year. Well, that date fled by three weeks… Continue Reading →
These is the bi-weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on alternate Thursday in #accessibility. You can read the full transcript here or see the full meeting schedule. Announcements WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 is released Guide to WCUS 2026 WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance Release Discussion on… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, July 16, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements WordPress 7.1 Beta1 Release (scheduled for today – 15th July) The release party starts at 15:00 UTC. Guide to WCUS 2026 WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance… Continue Reading →
These is the bi-weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on alternate Thursday in #accessibility. You can read the full transcript here or see the full meeting schedule. Announcements WordPress 7.1 Roadmap is published WordPress Contributor Dashboard: New Views, Custom Ladder, and More WP A11y… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, July 02, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements WordPress 7.1 Roadmap is published WordPress Contributor Dashboard: New Views, Custom Ladder, and More WP A11y Docs update June 2026 Call for Contributor Day… Continue Reading →
With: the feedback we received on the accessibility-ready requirements and the knowledge base during Contributor day at WordCamp Europe, as well as the work we did to process that feedback. Read the recap of the Accessibility Team’s work at WordCamp… Continue Reading →
Transcript [00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in… Continue Reading →
