Accessibility team meeting notes

Django Internals Accessibility
16

2024-07-23

Attendees: Eli, Marijke, Sarah, Tom, Saptak

Tom is leading the meeting in Thibaud’s absence, we missed you Thibaud!

Actions

  • Sarah Create blog post for accessibility team members
    • Thibaud Review blog post draft
  • Sarah Report DDT Accessibility on the repository
  • Tom Create other tickets for search landmark improvements on changelists
  • Thibaud Finish reviewing breadcrumbs changes
  • Thibaud Follow up with Open Source Design about the website
  • Thibaud Provide testable input date time demo for #15806 – release date field + last login
  • Thibaud Review position of “Add” button for filter_horizontal (group chooser) #16975
  • Thibaud Review progress with summary element for collapsible fieldsets #17910
  • Thibaud Next draft of accessibility guidelines for contributors #17338
  • Thibaud Share available web features in time for Django 5.2
  • Thibaud Convert any remaining actions to project board drafts
  • Eli & Thibaud Ask someone else for expertise with physical events
  • Eli or Saptak Check DjangoCon US website’s navbar a11y issue (reported by Accessibility Insights) and report it accordingly in github repo
    • Saptak write issues for Needs a skip link (decent big navigation)
    • Saptak write issues for Better focus indicators
  • Marijke Share accessibility tips for contributors (already started in Discord)
  • :white_check_mark:Marijke share with Tom pre-commit hook
  • Tom work on admin demo issues
  • Marijke to audit Django Girls website and make some issues (repo)

Actions review

  • Sarah Create blog post for accessibility team members
    • Thibaud Review blog post draft
  • :white_check_mark:Marijke Share media kit with Sarah
  • :white_check_mark:Sarah Start a private channel on the web-a11y Slack to discuss specific problems with the Django admin
  • Sarah Report DDT Accessibility on the repository
  • :white_check_mark: Tom Create ticket for search landmark improvements on changelists
  • Thibaud Finish reviewing breadcrumbs changes
  • Thibaud Follow up with Open Source Design about the website
  • Thibaud Provide testable input date time demo for #15806 – release date field + last login
  • Thibaud Review position of “Add” button for filter_horizontal (group chooser) #16975
  • Thibaud Review progress with summary element for collapsible fieldsets #17910
  • Thibaud Next draft of accessibility guidelines for contributors #17338
  • Thibaud Share available web features in time for Django 5.2
  • Thibaud Convert any remaining actions to project board drafts
  • :white_check_mark: Thibaud DjangoCon US Ask for or retrieve from last year – guidelines for speakers
  • Eli & Thibaud Review DjangoCon US speakers accessibility guidelines & DjangoCon checklists
  • Thibaud Ask if we can:
    • Reuse DjangoCon US guidelines for other events
    • Give a heads’up for speakers about the review process
  • Thibaud Ask Europe organizers WG for where to store documents for future organizers
  • :white_check_mark: Eli & Thibaud Ask Saptak for expertise with physical events
    • venue page for DjangoCon US does have an accessibility section
  • Eli & Thibaud DjangoCon US website audit
    • [Eli] Inspecting the website navbar items with Accessibility Insights for the Web shows a couple of failures in the automatic checks but I’m not sure I understand what the real issue is
    • :white_check_mark: Contrast issues in the “Other hotels” section (in the venue page) and some minor ones in the about page
    • [Saptak] Needs a skip link (decent big navigation)
    • [Saptak] Better focus indicators
    • :white_check_mark: [Saptak] “A friendly conference for a friendly community” doesn’t meet color contrast
    • [Saptak]: The title of the articles in the “Latest news” should be h3 (suggestion)
  • Marijke Share accessibility tips for contributors (already started in Discord)
  • Thibaud Ask contact about physical event accessibility guidelines (Thibaud’s or Marijke)

Agenda

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