This update informs you about:
- Remaining documentation for wpaccessibility.org.
- 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 Handbook on GitHub 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/.
- Preparations for publication of the docs on developer.wordpress.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/
Remaining documentation for wpaccessibility.org
In October Rian wrote the remaining content listed in the Tracking issue Content pages: create or review or rewrite. This resulted in 11 pull requests. Joe Dolson plans to review these PRs in November, when he has hopefully more time, next to his accessibility work for WP core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
Accessibility Team Handbook on GitHub
The maintenance of the WordPress Accessibility Team Handbook has moved to GitHub in the repository WordPress/accessibility-team-handbook. Moving the Team Handbook to GitHub makes it easier to maintain, allows anyone to suggest changes, and provides better visibility into document history.
Preparations for publication of the docs on developer.wordpress.org
We are writing the specifications for an API An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. to synchronize the documentation on wpaccessibility.org with a new section on developer.wordpress.org called Accessibility.
The following sections from the WP Accessibility Knowledge Base on wpaccessibility.org will be published on the WordPress Developer Resources:
For context: we will have two different resources:
- The WordPress Accessibility Team Handbook on Make/WordPress, about the team, how to contribute or report issues.
- The WordPress Accessibility Handbook in the Developer Resources, that will contain information about accessibility itself.
