6.29.22 Meeting Minutes

Attendees

• Gabriel

• Tony

• Darian

• Sylvain

• Martha

• Nikhil

• Mike

• Tania

What are people working on?

• Sylvain

  • Codemirror 6 migration is ready for testing, accessibility perspective and otherwise.

  • Please test it with the binder link in the PR! Feedback is extremely welcome! Please note CM6’s accessibility doesn’t seem to be clearly documented.

  • Known issues we will not be addressing: LaTeX syntax highlighting does not yet exist

• Isabela

  • JupyterLab accessibility statement approach

  • I’m going to be working on theming soon. What are your dream themes? (ie. ideal accessible themes)

  • :bulb: colour-blind friendly - as many as possible?!, selective contrast, address Irlen syndrome needs, monochrome

• Gabriel

  • I haven’t been doing much Jupyter-related accessibility work lately, but I have been trying to implement accessibility-related CI/CD for the upcoming new Quansight website (quansight.com and labs.quansight.org), and I have been a bit surprised (but not surprised) that some of this stuff isn’t more plug-and-play.

  • Quansight’s new website is statically generated with Vercel. You might think that there would be some ready drop-in solution to run pa11y-ci or axe-core against the pages in your site, but so far I haven’t found it.

• Nikhil

  • Haven’t been working on Jupyter-specific accessibility tickets (although I would like to dive in), but have been working on data viz accessibility! Continuing some prior research I worked on during school (w/ Doug Schepers, Frank Elavsky) on auto-generating summaries using NLPfor complex/reactive charts/graphs and also diving more into sonification (Highcharts).

  • One of our research benchmarks: Chart2Text: Generating Natural Language Explanations for Charts by Adapting the Transformer Model

  • From @gabalafou: here’s a Colab using some sonification

  • https://allosphere.ucsb.edu/

  • https://astronify.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

• Mike

  • https://github.com/krassowski/jupyterlab-voice-control is now a thing, was demoed on previous JupyterLab meeting

Next steps

• Collect requests for notebook and visualization standards in JupyterLab to figure out where that info may be best stored (Isabela)

• Create a list for requested JupyterLab accessible themes with status (Isabela)

• Update on static website testing set up (Gabriel)

• Watch the jupyter-lab-voice demo when it’s on YouTube!