These is the bi-weekly notes for the Accessibility 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.
- WordPress 7.0 RC2 released
- Only a week to go for WCAsia2026
Working Group Updates
@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 core 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 block 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 WordCamp 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
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