08.11.21 Meeting Minutes

Attendees

• Martha

• Isabela

• Jason

• Max

• Nick

• Mike

• Jenn

• Erik

What are people working on?

• Jenn and Erik

  • Hello from Space Telescope Science Institute and Astropy!

  • Jupyter notebooks aren’t accessible and we’d like them to be.

  • We’ve been working with GLAS Education to test our own work with blind and visually impaired people.

• Nick

  • documentation as an area also lacking accessibility

  • Still trying to get pydata-sphinx-theme PRs merged (Lighthouse testing and pa11y testing)

• Mike

  • question: are outputs returned by kernel, say data frames, accessible/is it being worked on by anyone? I know there is a lot of work on UX, but I wonder how much work will be there in downstream packages which provide outputs

    • [Max] if you’re talking about the fancy pandas dataframe rendering, the answer is definitely not. There are wcag/aria specs for how to make a grid accessible, tho

    • [Jason] That would be awesome if the frontend supported some innate dataframe mimetype which it could render in an accessible way

  • question: aria-label vs title (https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/pull/10727/files#r685601307)

    • Should this be defined from the toolbar button instead of the tooltip?

    • Isabela will test the binder and see how the current implmentation works.

    • https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/pull/10727/files#r685601307

    • https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/

    • https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/#wai-aria-roles-states-and-properties-3

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