Accessibility team meeting notes

Django Internals Accessibility
20

2024-11-26 Film grain

Attendees: Marijke, Tom, Eli, Thibaud, Sarah

Actions

  • Thibaud Publish Sarah’s blog post
  • Thibaud Follow up with new GH org for the axe-selenium-python
  • Thibaud you have an email from Outreachy to reply when you have time :heart:
  • Tom, Marijke, Thibaud Fight it out on the Django forum re. linting tools
  • Sarah do a PR on Tom’s demo for the accessibility CI for Django
  • Thibaud Share recording of screen reader testing on #35870
  • Marijke Further mess with #35870
  • Sarah, Saptak, Tom Chase on FOSDEM accessibility talks
  • Thibaud Submit accessibility talk proposal
  • All - share FOSDEM accessibility talk ideas
  • Thibaud Airbnb :crown: for FOSDEM
  • Thibaud Airbnb :crown: for DjangoCon Europe
  • Thibaud Do a Trac & GitHub issues accessibility audit
  • Sarah Ask James on Slack

Actions review

Agenda

  • Congratulations Tom! :tada:
  • Accessibility considerations for events
    • Found the ones from Paris Web
  • Packages for accessibility review
    • django-debug-toolbar
    • django-allauth
  • Accessibility of CLI interfaces
    • Part of the accessibility team’s remit
    • Dunning-Kreuger effect graph
      • Also it doesn’t exist / needs further proof
  • Better show password input in management commands
    • Recent example
  • Proposal: Accessibility developer in residence
    • Needs a lot of expertise
    • Needs time to find the right person
    • Thibaud you have an email from Outreachy to reply when you have time :heart:
  • Working with James Scholes
    • Provided feedback about the Django admin, working with Marijke
    • Discuss perspectives with him
    • Based in South America (time zones: Europe evening)
    • Multi-select widget
  • Blog post: Welcome to our new members
    • Smaller images
    • Alphabetical
  • Shitpost working group progress report
    • Office hours bingo generator
    • Wp-login plugin (“I’m not affiliated with WP Engine”)
  • 2024 accessibility team report
  • Steering Council
    • New SC coming up in 1 month’s time
    • Marijke and Tom part of those discussions from afar
    • Chatting with SC candidates
    • Documented SC overlap in DEP 10
    • “​​To take charge of the governance of other technical teams within the Django open-source project, following the processes described below, and to govern those teams accordingly.”
    • Feeling is only SC involvement to date was deciding what not to do
    • Possible focus:
      • Docs improvements
        • Accessibility of docs
        • Possible Season of Docs projects
        • Django docs falling behind compared to other projects
        • Usability issues with the docs
          • Wall of text
      • Community improvements
      • (keyboard shortcuts)
        • Features attract more dev users to Django
  • Accessibility improvements roadmap
  • RTL
  • #35870
    • —-------
    • Thibaud doing screen reader testing
    • TalkBack needed for testing
    • Marijke’s test project: django-local-test
    • Marijke is team both, Thibaud is team fix defaults
    • Needs further research & trial and error
  • FOSDEM 2025
    • CfP deadline in 4 days
    • Saptak, Sarah, Tom looking for more talks
    • Tom submitted :rainbow:
    • Raffaella submitting?
    • Thibaud has to submit
    • What happens if there aren’t enough talks submitted? :skull_and_crossbones:
    • Airbnb duty, many people (accessibility team, Alex)
  • FOSDEM accessibility talk ideas
    • Links and buttons
    • CLI accessibility
    • Hyphens and screen readers
  • DjangoCon Europe Accessibility
    • We want to be involved with accessibility of the conference, in particular slides
    • Follow up with checklist similar to our attempt for
    • Eli and Thibaud DjangoCon Europe in Dublin
  • Can I sneak Trac in at the end
    • Need a volunteer to do an accessibility audit of Trac
    • Choice quotes from the internet
      • “Trac makes me irrationally angry”
      • “It makes it feel very old to me”
      • “Gives that feeling of Django is a dying framework”
      • “People will judge it by its cover”
    • Ask James for input? (in thread)
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