08.25.21 Meeting Minutes

Attendees

• Nick

• Martha

• Jason

• Tony

• Isabela

• Max

What are people working on?

• Max

  • Trying to contribute a Jupyter accessibility design he’d used reccently as shown here. Needs to follow up with the trademark community.

• Tony

  • Accessible authoring practices for notebooks. How can we support this for authors, not just accessibility in interface.

  • Like what was being discussed at jupyter/accessibility #37

  • Isabela: is Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines related?

  • Nick: https://w3c.github.io/annotation-aria/#annotation-model-mappings

  • chartability

• Nick

  • PyData Sphinx PRs need updating, but that would also be helpful.

  • nbconvert accessible output templates?

• Isabela

  • Workshop! Running several smaller events and want to release the final dates i the next week.

  • Workshop alt text guide PR

  • Nick says Something like pytest-check-links but for alt text?

  • Ideas for other events

    • Take accessibility PRs that have been made and dissect them to get more understanding from Jupyter experts in the community.

Next steps

• Follow up with the trademark committee (Max)

• Update PyData sphinx theme PRs for Lighthouse and pa11y testing. (Nick)

• Ask Martha about explaining how accessibility needs to fit in to Jupyter (Isabela)

• Follow up/finish alt text guide for workshop (Isabela)