Accessibility team meeting notes

Django Internals Accessibility
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2025-05-22 GSoC Goodies

Attendees: Tom, Sarah, Sage, Rahmat, Tim, Thibaud, Eli

Actions

  • Thibaud Share Trac & GitHub issues accessibility audit
  • Thibaud Finish first draft of accessibility annual report
  • Sarah, Saptak, Thibaud Join email discussions with PSF
  • Thibaud Write a proposed plan for Outreachy participation in 2025
  • Thibaud Draft Browser support policy proposal
    • Tom Review
  • Thibaud Draft accessibility selection criteria for DjangoCon Europe 2027 selection
  • Saptak Reach out to DjangoCon US team for website accessibility review
  • Sarah and Saptak Report back on website WG
  • Thibaud Update team charter for voting + Chair + Co-Chair responsibilities (renewals)
  • Thibaud Write a draft proposal for keyboard shortcuts implementation (excluding command palette)
    • Sage Review draft proposal
    • Rafey, Tom Take over the proposal
  • Thibaud Share research on autocomplete
  • Eli, Sarah, Rahmat Review accessibility of multilingual content with mixed translation
  • Eli Review annual impact report of the DSF

Actions review

Agenda

  • Whoa we have new members (who are hopefully here)
    • Welcome Sage and Rahmat :tada:
  • Actions review
    • Sarah do a PR on Tom’s demo for the accessibility CI for Django
      • Worked in the sprints
      • Half working - not all urls are checked, need someone from the team if to advice
    • Thibaud Do a Trac & GitHub issues accessibility audit
      • All of issues that
      • Audit was completed, GitHub looked generally good. Trac had ~100 issues and is pretty unusable.
  • Website working group
    • One meeting so far, next one in June
    • Discussing process, starting with PRs, onboarding (20tab report)
    • Fundraising improvements & TBC which other items are on priority list
    • Design concerns - cost, planning effort
  • Membership renewal and future members
    • Question on whether we look for more new members or no
    • Important to get new people on board with expertise (through personal or professional experience)
    • Current team size (6-8) is good
    • Email from Tom every year
  • Two existing members are likely signing off
    • People leaving the team is a sign of health!
    • Future actions:
      • Eli List our two departing team members in new “Alumni” section of the team charter
      • Thibaud Remove departing members from WG resources in Google Workspace
      • Tom Remove departing members from Discord
  • Muhammad’s offer to help in the Django discord accessibility channel?
    • Checking on where and how to work together
    • Currently learning Django, may need more experience to navigate our team challenges
  • GSoC keyboard shortcuts / common palette questions
    • Keyboard shortcuts: accepted ticket from 14 years ago, without clear agreement on which shortcuts / specifics.
    • Command palette
      • Likely requires a DEP as it’s bigger and doesn’t have a ticket
      • Necessity is also less clear
    • Would be good to write a motivation for the command palette as I’m not sure how much people will want one if regular shortcuts can do 90%+ already
  • Select2 replacement
  • Accessibility of multilingual content with mixed translation
    • Can of worms
  • Sarah Abderemane’s keynote next week
    • Drink water
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