[community] WordPress needs help testing their new authoring environ

[Laura Yvonne Bulk]

I'll add that I *haven't *ventured into using WP because I've not wanted to
go about figuring out how to access it - if it had great accessibility I'd
be more likely to use it!

Laura Yvonne Bulk OT, MOT, BSW
PhD Candidate, Rehabilitation Sciences
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On 15 March 2018 at 06:12, Mitchell, Jess <jmitchell at ocadu.ca> wrote:

> Thanks Rylan and Brian and John. I’m going to share this thread with Rian
> in hopes that she digs in and gets as much a11y baked into that editor.
>
> Jess
>
> > On Mar 15, 2018, at 12:12 AM, Brian Moore <bmoore at screenreview.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >        Hi Jess.  This is really cool.  Been looking for this for a
> while.  I am going back  to the ministry of  Government and Consumer
> services in a couple of weeks for another year, in theory.  This is
> something I could really use as I think some of my ideas around platform
> changes for public facing things might be gaining some traction after a
> couple of years.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for this! Will certainly follow up.
> >
> >
> > Brian.
> >
> > Contact me on skype: brian.moore follow me on twitter:
> http://www.twitter.com/bmoore123
> >> On 14/03/2018 10:44 PM, Rylan Vroom wrote:
> >> Hey Jess, I too am reaching out, I've always wanted a more accessible
> and ATAG compliant WP experience. Will let you know how that goes.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: community [mailto:community-bounces at lists.idrc.ocadu.ca] On
> Behalf Of Mitchell, Jess
> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 10:07 PM
> >> To: John W (personal)
> >> Cc: community at lists.idrc.ocadu.ca
> >> Subject: Re: [community] WordPress needs help testing their new
> authoring environ
> >>
> >> Amazing John. I also pinged Rian about having a chat sometime about
> work we’ve done on the floeproject around authoring — in particular the
> work on accessible metadata.
> >>
> >> I’ll be interested to hear how reaching out to her goes...
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Jess
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mar 14, 2018, at 9:48 PM, John W (personal) <pickupwillis at gmail.com<
> mailto:pickupwillis at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey Jess, thanks for taking time to post this - I am using WP at the
> Ministry of Community & Social Services, to communicate with/engage the
> 11,000 staff who work in Ontario Disability Support Program and Ontario
> Works (social assistance) - as a blind user, I'm quite interested in this
> topic
> >>
> >> I'll connect with Rian and try to help out
> >>
> >> thanks
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Mitchell, Jess <jmitchell at ocadu.ca
> <mailto:jmitchell at ocadu.ca>> wrote:
> >> The following text is from tweets with https://twitter.com/RianRietveld
> a WordPress engineer focused on accessibility and testing. Her personal
> page is here http://rianrietveld.com/
> >>
> >> They are about to roll-out a new authoring environment in WP called
> Gutenberg…
> >>
> >> Gutenberg is in development for almost a year now is getting ready for
> merge into WordPress. I'm gathering the troops to test it with AT, as we
> see major problems. We couldn't really test before because of all the
> changes that were made.
> >> what we need most now is testers and people who help solving the a11y
> and usability problems.
> >> The discussion is on GitHub with the tickets labeled accessibility. If
> you could test and join the discussion, that would be so helpful
> >> https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues?q=is%3Aissue+
> is%3Aopen+label%3AAccessibility
> >> If you need access to a test environment or need other resources,
> please let me know
> >>
> >> You can reach her on Twitter directly or let me know if you want to
> reach her but aren’t on twitter!
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Jess
> >>
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> Jess Mitchell
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> >> Senior Manager, R&D + Design
> >> OCAD University, Toronto
> >> Inclusive Design Research Centre
> >> jmitchell at ocadu.ca<mailto:jmitchell at ocadu.ca>
> >> skype: jesshmitchell
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