Accessibility team meeting notes

We didn’t meet today but finally got our new members welcome post live! Welcome to our new Django accessibility team members - Eli, Marijke, Tushar, Saptak. Thank you @sabderemane for doing a fair chunk of the writing on this :raised_hands:

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Late publish but we met in January.

2025-01-28 Happy new year!

Attendees: Tom, Sarah, Marijke, Eli, Saptak

Actions

  • 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 - Adding a formatter for CSS & JS - #21 by tom
  • Sarah do a PR on Tom’s demo for the accessibility CI for Django
  • Thibaud Do a Trac & GitHub issues accessibility audit - run by James after?
  • Tom start 2024 report
    • Tom will start compiling finished tickets from Trac / GH / Website GH / project board / etc.
  • Eli ask DCEU people if we can get slides to review in advance
  • Sarah to ask about social media alt text for DCEU
  • Sarah to ask DCEU organisers to put venue a11y info on the venue page
  • Tom & Thibaud to put together list of easyish a11y tickets and create new ones
  • Everyone leave comments on Thibaud’s Django accessibility statement - Google Docs

Actions review

  • :white_check_mark: Thibaud Publish Sarah’s blog post
  • :white_check_mark: 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 - Adding a formatter for CSS & JS - #21 by tom
  • Sarah do a PR on Tom’s demo for the accessibility CI for Django
  • :white_check_mark: Thibaud Share recording of screen reader testing on Allow customization of the blank option in select dropdowns
  • :white_check_mark: Marijke Further mess with Allow customization of the blank option in select dropdowns
  • :white_check_mark: Sarah, Saptak, Tom Chase on FOSDEM accessibility talks
  • :white_check_mark: Thibaud Submit accessibility talk proposal
  • :white_check_mark: All - share FOSDEM accessibility talk ideas
  • :white_check_mark: Thibaud Airbnb :crown: for FOSDEM
  • :white_check_mark: Thibaud Airbnb :crown: for DjangoCon Europe
  • Thibaud Do a Trac & GitHub issues accessibility audit
  • :white_check_mark: Sarah Ask James on Slack about Trac & GitHub issues

Agenda

  • FOSDEM Inclusive Web devroom
    • Roles:
      • Sarah & Thibaud: hosting
      • Tom: timekeeping & questions from Matrix
      • Saptak: random stuff
  • 2024 accessibility team report
    • Tom to start draft doc
    • People will help!
  • DjangoCon Europe Accessibility
    • Review slides
  • Djangonaut Space a11y group
  • Accessibility statement

First draft: Django accessibility statement

2025-02-25 Tic tac tic tac

Attendees: Tom, Marijke, Eli, Thibaud, Sarah

Actions

  • Eli Do a new poll
  • Thibaud Write a proposed plan for Outreachy participation in 2025
  • Thibaud Provide input on CSS formatting and linting on the forum
  • Sarah do a PR on Tom’s demo for the accessibility CI for Django
  • Thibaud Do a Trac & GitHub issues accessibility audit - run by James after?
  • Tom & Marijke & Thibaud Further work on annual report
  • Thibaud Set up Google Drive shared folder + team group
  • Eli ask DCEU people if we can get slides to review in advance
  • Sarah to ask about social media alt text for DCEU
  • Sarah to ask DCEU organisers to put venue a11y info on the venue page
  • Tom & Thibaud to put together list of easyish a11y tickets and create new ones
  • Thibaud Share list of simple accessibility contributions (Django core & website)
  • Thibaud Complete first draft of FOSDEM highlights blog post
    • Marijke Review (Thibaud share on Signal)
  • Eli Organize tooltips review
  • Tom & Tushar axe package modernization
  • Thibaud Remind Tom to work on axe-selenium-python every 3-4 days
  • Sarah, Saptak, Thibaud Join email discussions with PSF
  • Thibaud and Sarah Look into TOC accessibility question on forum

Actions review

  • :white_check_mark: 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 - Adding a formatter for CSS & JS - #21 by tom
  • Sarah do a PR on Tom’s demo for the accessibility CI for Django
  • Thibaud Do a Trac & GitHub issues accessibility audit - run by James after?
  • :white_check_mark: Tom start 2024 report
    • Tom will start compiling finished tickets from Trac / GH / Website GH / project board / etc.
  • Eli ask DCEU people if we can get slides to review in advance
  • Sarah to ask about social media alt text for DCEU
  • Sarah to ask DCEU organisers to put venue a11y info on the venue page
  • Tom & Thibaud to put together list of easyish a11y tickets and create new ones
  • Everyone leave comments on Thibaud’s Django accessibility statement - Google Docs

Agenda

  • New meeting time
    • Eli is in charge of a new poll
  • CSS tooling
    • Options: Biome (formatter + linting), Prettier (formatter), Stylelint (linter)
  • Accessibility team report
    • Tom shared first draft. And then list of contributions to highlight for Django itself
    • Next: django website
    • Thibaud chart
    • Marijke will work on wording
  • Google Drive
  • DjangoCon Europe slides review
    • Eli working on this soon
    • (Thibaud possibly some involvement)
  • Accessibility statement
    • First draft: Django accessibility statement
    • More feedback for Thibaud to address, ready for publication
    • How do we enforce accessibility of physical events?
      • Make it a part of the grant giving process
      • Research to be done at a later date on how other orgs do this
  • FOSDEM Inclusive Web devroom debrief
    • Thibaud working on highlights post
  • Djangonaut Space
    • Eli, how are you? Need help?
      • yes
    • New pattern needed for Django admin tooltips - Accessibility
      • Curate which uses of the title attribute can be replaced with a visible label
      • And which still require a tooltip implementation
      • And how to make an accessible tooltip
    • Need really easy wins
    • Accessibility one-liners
  • Project triage to review?
  • Axe-selenium-python
    • Package work in progress
    • Thank you David for contributions!
    • Tom wants to do further modernizing
      • Trusted Publishing
      • pyproject.toml / modern packaging practices
      • Linting (ruff ruff?)
      • Get Tushar involved w/ this
  • Review / Feedback
  • PSF DEI WG - Sarah meeting
    • “How can we improve the accessibility of Python”
    • Need to provide input on email w/
  • DjangoCon Europe plans
    • Eli: Keyboard shortcuts
    • Thibaud: ???
  • GSoC: keyboard shortcuts
    • With Tom mentoring
    • Two project sizes depending on scope
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2025-03-03 Content Accessibility Policy

Attendees: Tom, Eli, Thibaud

Actions

  • Thibaud Write a proposed plan for Outreachy participation in 2025
  • Sarah do a PR on Tom’s demo for the accessibility CI for Django
  • Thibaud Do a Trac & GitHub issues accessibility audit - run by James after?
  • Tom & Marijke & Thibaud Further work on annual report
  • Eli ask DCEU people if we can get slides to review in advance
  • Sarah to ask about social media alt text for DCEU
  • Sarah to ask DCEU organisers to put venue a11y info on the venue page
  • Thibaud Complete first draft of FOSDEM highlights blog post
    • Marijke Review (Thibaud share on Signal)
  • Tom & Tushar axe package modernization
  • Thibaud Remind Tom to work on axe-selenium-python every 3-4 days
  • Sarah, Saptak, Thibaud Join email discussions with PSF
  • Thibaud Draft Browser support policy proposal

Actions review

  • :white_check_mark: Eli Do a new poll
  • Thibaud Write a proposed plan for Outreachy participation in 2025
  • :white_check_mark: Thibaud Provide input on CSS formatting and linting on the forum
  • Sarah do a PR on Tom’s demo for the accessibility CI for Django
  • Thibaud Do a Trac & GitHub issues accessibility audit - run by James after?
  • Tom & Marijke & Thibaud Further work on annual report
  • :white_check_mark: Thibaud Set up Google Drive shared folder + team group
  • Eli ask DCEU people if we can get slides to review in advance
  • Sarah to ask about social media alt text for DCEU
  • Sarah to ask DCEU organisers to put venue a11y info on the venue page
  • :white_check_mark: Tom & Thibaud to put together list of easyish a11y tickets and create new ones
  • :white_check_mark: Thibaud Share list of simple accessibility contributions (Django core & website)
  • Thibaud Complete first draft of FOSDEM highlights blog post
    • Marijke Review (Thibaud share on Signal)
  • :white_check_mark: Eli Organize tooltips review
  • Tom & Tushar axe package modernization
  • Thibaud Remind Tom to work on axe-selenium-python every 3-4 days
  • Sarah, Saptak, Thibaud Join email discussions with PSF
  • :white_check_mark: Thibaud and Sarah Look into TOC accessibility question on forum

Agenda

  • Drafts tasks triage
  • Browser support policy
    • Baseline too slow?
    • Thibaud write down opinions
      • Thinking of forecasted browser support for future releases
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