Team update - Dec 01, 2021

[trallard]

This is a @Quansight-Labs/czi-a11y-grant team sync 🎉🎉🎉! This is a way for the Team Members to provide status reports on what they've been up to this week and request help and attention for things they are working on. This issue will be closed at the end of the day.

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Response Template

**Thanks I'd like to give 🙌**
- So-and-so helped me out a lot with XXX...
- Thanks for Jo's work on the XXX repo...

**Updates from last week :heavy_check_mark:**
- I worked towards deliverable: <link-to-deliverable>
- I had a meeting with ABC

**Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏**
- I had a hard time figuring out ...
- Could somebody take a look at ...

**My availability for next week**
- I'll be off on XXX day...
- I've got several meetings this week...

🔍 Needs Triage:

The Needs Triage issues require an initial assessment and labeling.

• Investigate accessibility statements

🎯 Project boards

Please make sure the boards reflect the current status of the project.

Jupyter a11y grant project

[isabela-pf]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• Thanks to @gabalafou for helping me fix my (apparently quite broken) JupyterLab development environment. 🌻

Updates from last week ✔️

• Started to update roadmap Update roadmap November 11 #60 (from the Source HackMD first) based on community meetings' feedback. Haven't put the updates in the PR yet. (So draft roadmap blog post will need updates too.)
• Started experimenting with search/filter/input fields based on jupyterlab/jupyterlab #8832 for color contrast updates. I may do a draft PR today, but I am still trying to find a way to make all the search buttons match.
• Checked in with Mars about SPEC work. I think this will be a chance for at least some of the documentation/sharing with other projects. Since we (Mars, Tony, and I) have done a multiple alt text documentation sprints with projects, we think that might be a good place to start.

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

• I am okay for now.

My availability for next week

• I'll be here all next week. ✨

[isabela-pf]

Meeting notes:

Gabriel

• Met with Frederic. Getting acquainted with what they're both working on. Automated testing and UI components
• Work on https://github.com/gabalafou/jupyterlab/tree/pa11y/pa11y-run
  • Running pa11y against first JupyterLab screen (launcher?)
  • Download the file to get the results.
  • This is probably not the full feedback because pa11y still can't get everywhere in JLab yet.
  • pa11y is top-down testing, component work is more bottom-up.
• Plan is next couple of weeks to get a document started to gather people around how we want to think about this big picture to think more about entire contributor and release life cycles
• Discussion about testing approach. Mainly around aiming for a first pass of comprehensive tests versus getting any level of tests, where we can best work on tests.