Accessibility team meeting notes

Django Internals Accessibility
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2025-09-25 - redesign

Attendees: Eli, Saptak, Tim, Thibaud

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GitHub Projects: django accessibility improvements, All Table

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Agenda

  • PR Review session

    • Rahmat and Eli would like Saptak to lead one
    • Saptak to find an issue to lead a session
    • Eli to send lettuce meeting poll

  • Website redesign

    • Post by Adam Hill: Want to work on a homepage site redesign?
      • And also Fediverse discussions
    • Interest from the community outside the Website WG
    • State of discussions in the website WG
      • Going over all open issues and PRs, get them merged, clean up repo
      • There is UX research done
      • People aren’t aware about next steps
    • Possible next steps
      • Announce our plans
      • Figure out where / how we fit Adam’s homepage plans
        • Decide what we deprioritise from our roadmap
      • Call for designers?
      • Accessibility input at some point
    • Likely timeline
      • 1-2 months of work likely needed before we even get to mockups
      • Bring website redesign plans forward but not “right now”
        • 2-3 key deliverables for accessibility to unblock imminent homepage work or longer-term website work

  • UI/UX/usability team

    • Opportunity to coordinate contributors in this space
    • Separate or combined with accessibility team?
    • Blog posts about UI/UX (“Django forms with Tailwind”)
    • Experts on command line interfaces
      • Ask Adam Johnson if he knows contributors in this space
    • Reach out to Tracy Osborn, previously involved with Django community?
    • Volunteer vs. paid work
      • Need volunteers to prepare good briefs, review proposals, review any work
      • TBC whether the main visual design work would be paid or not
      • Need UX work to be done upfront of the visual design
      • Reach out to consulting firms to ask for design contacts
      • Open Source Design
        • Ask for volunteer input right now at the early stage

  • Proposed website redesign milestones:

    • Marketing strategy
    • (Possibly renewing the vision for the framework a bit)
    • (Brand guidelines)
    • :white_check_mark: User research
    • :hourglass_done: Redesign brief
    • (Website content strategy)
    • (Website moodboard)
    • User journey mapping / information architecture for the site
    • (Data on current site usage)
    • Design mockups, possibly low-fidelity prototypes
    • Visual design

  • Redesign brief first steps with Nicole

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