Team update - Oct 19, 2022

[trallard]

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**Thanks I'd like to give 🙌**
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**Updates from last week :heavy_check_mark:**
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**Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏**
- I had a hard time figuring out ...

**My availability for next week**
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[steff456]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• @isabela-pf for working hard in the blog post

Updates from last week ✔️

• I worked in the blogpost, now it is almost ready, I still need to work in a gif with the themes to add it.
• I added six new themes to the accessibility-pygments repo. I still have two themes to fully support vscode recommended themes - tracking issue

Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏

• I'm ok

My availability for next week

• I'll be here

Important items for discussion 💬

• I don't have anything for today

[gabalafou]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• Big thanks to @kulsoomzahra for all of the good energy and hard work put into the internship these past three months!

Updates from last week ✔️

• I mostly got all of the pieces in place for my accessibility regression test demo. A lot of polishing and cleaning up to do next. I need to open some PRs now.

Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏

• I need to have a 1-on-1 with Frederic or someone from JupyterLab to ask some questions about things I don't understand. For example, why do they use git merge-base pull_request.base.sha pull_request.head.sha? Why can't they just use the the base SHA as the base and the head SHA as the head?

My availability for next week

• I don't plan on taking off any time next week; however, I have a cousin coming to visit me and we might be in a small town on Monday and Tuesday, so my wifi might be a bit spotty on those days.

Important items for discussion 💬

• Can we discuss next steps for accessibility regression tests?

[isabela-pf]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• Thanks to @steff456 for being the accessibile-pygments expert in the draft blog post!

Updates from last week ✔️

• Curate JupyterLab themes #133 got feedback on mockups in JupyterLab #10004 in the JupyterLab and JupyterLab accessibility calls.
• Test out a new contribution event! #132 the keyboard navigation event is being turned into an issue for jupyter/notebook I have a draft of it open literally as I type this update 😆. I will finish it after this call.
• Worked on accessible-pygments blog post with Stephannie. I'll be turning it to a PR by the end of this week.

Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏

• I'm surviving.

My availability for next week

• I'll be here all next week.

Important items for discussion 💬

• I don't think I have anything right now.

[trallard]

@isabela-pf

• got some feedback from the accessibility call on the zoom proposal
• do we need to have interviews with low-vision users? what do we want to get out of this? perhaps we need to look at what they'd expect rather than specific to JLab?
• what apps would we look at to compare? - @isabela-pf can work on a checklist, and we can "audit" different apps

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@kulsoomzahra

• working on the blog post for the internship

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@gabalafou

• showed a demo 🎉 on his testing work
• will send a PR with what he has working on regression tests
• then build on this to add more tests

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@steff456

• worked on the blog post 📝
• added 6 more themes to the accessible-pygments
• will move on to creating the extension with the accessible-pygments
• thinking about how to calculate the contrast between two colours programmatically