Team update - Mar 09, 2022

[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...

**Important items for discussion 💬**
- I have a question about goal <link-to-goal>
- Can @XXX give a comment on issue #NN?
- I opened #NN for discussion, please chime in
- I need to discuss XXX

🔍 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 🙌

• @gabalafou thank you for being a sounding board for workshop ideas with me!
• @tonyfast thanks for supporting the workshops!
• @trallard thank you for following up when I ask for help!

Updates from last week ✔️

I don't have much to report.

• Opened issue on jupyterlab-fonts about potential JupyterLab settings editor interaction. This extension already provides ways to edit some parts of the theme and is at least somewhat extensible, so I think this could be a good path forward.
• Getting in contact with SPEC team about feedback so we can move forward with the current image description draft.
• Mostly workshop things. So not helpful here.

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

• Just a heads-up, I'll be asking for some feedback on one of the workshop formats.

My availability for next week

• I'll be here all week.

Important items for discussion 💬
I really like this new section, but I can't think of anything at the moment.

[trallard]

💬 Important to discuss:

• [Proposal] - add jupyter/accessibility as a software sub-project jupyter/governance#124 follow-up

  • follow-up question: what is the eligibility/renewal process for voting status? @isabela-pf wonders if the WG need to re-apply/demonstrate its eligibility
  • shall we move forward with software subproject + and WG for accessibility who holds the vote? the software subgroup or the WG
  • the aforementioned issue lays the foundation for both charters

  Next steps 🏃🏽:

  • @trallard to summarise the pros/cons and ways to organise
  • @trallard will present that summary at the upcoming a11y/community call
  • vote/lazy consensus on the above?
  • folks at the governance said we could choose what we want to do, experiment with that for 6 months (?) and reevaluate
  • report back to jupyter/governance on decisions, concerns, steps forward

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• @isabela-pf has things lined up for the workshop

  • @trallard will be at the workshop
  • need to work on the auditing: maybe Swast can provide some new insights 💡
  • @gabalafou will be attending the workshops

• @tonyfast how can we coordinate with folks working on viz spaces?

  • alt-text and aria with Matplotlib would be a good x-pollination effort