Team update - May 04, 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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**Thanks I'd like to give 🙌**
- So-and-so helped me out a lot with foo...

**Updates from last week :heavy_check_mark:**
- I worked towards deliverable: <link-to-deliverable>

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

**My availability for next week**
- I'll be off on foo day...

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

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Jupyter a11y grant project

[gabalafou]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• Thanks to @isabela-pf for the really great work with mapping tests to WCAG guidelines and coming up with test scripts
• Thanks to @tonyfast for setting up Doit and handing off the code to me so I could learn from it
• Thanks to @trallard for helping to reduce complexity with Gitpod

Updates from last week ✔️

• I have been diving into the guts of Playwright and Galata to clear away issues we will have when installing them into a dedicated environment (Gitpod)

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

• I REALLY want to get up a PR agains jupyter/accessibility repo that allows the axe-core tests to run in a Gitpod environment. I'm worried about being blocked on this. Should I work in parallel on my own Gitpod account?

My availability for next week

• Available all next week

Important items for discussion 💬

• Front-end coding JupyterLab a11y internship. Melissa said that she has a lot of intern applications interested in front end. She asked me if I would be interested in taking on 2 interns. I'm hesitant to take on more than one, but I wanted to us to chat and see if there's maybe a creative solution here that I'm not thinking of myself.
• Our Monday meeting time? Check in. Is it a good time? Does anybody want to move it?
• Maybe some shift left discussion about what we're building right now and how we imagine people interacting with it. Some things that came out of conversation with Martha in yesterday's accessibility meeting:
  • Document, document, document!
  • How would a developer add an a11y test and then run it? How do we want that to look? What makes sense?

[isabela-pf]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• Thank you to you all for good feedback on Scoping automated testing steps #95!

Updates from last week ✔️

• Scoping automated testing steps #95. I'm working on an updated version of the testing scripts based on y'all's feedback. It will be posted in that issue, but it's not totally polished as of writing this.
• Develop pathways for participatory community engagement #3. I also started turning some of the brainstorm event ideas into agendas. Nothing to show yet, but that's a next step I'm taking because I think it will be easy to critique agendas.

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

• Nothing unusual, thanks for asking.

My availability for next week

• I'll be here all week.

Important items for discussion 💬

• I briefly talked with @gabalafou about Develop pathways for participatory community engagement #3 and he mentioned he wanted to bring the discussion to you all. The main thoughts were
  • Are events really outreach to the communities we currently fail to engage (they aren't as they are now), as mentioned in the issue?
  • What are ways to meet disability and/or accessibility communities where they are at (with the resources we have)?

[trallard]

• @gabalafou

  • @trallard will finish the Gitpod implementation
  • 🔥 install playwright from npm
  • 💬 Maybe some shift left discussion about what we're building right now and how we imagine people interacting with it.

• @isabela-pf

  • to tag us when we need to review the automated testing steps
  • @trallard to discuss sprints and events
  • how to engage better and bring folks -> wider community scientific ecosystem

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Misc and TODOs

• all to review and comment on Develop pathways for participatory community engagement #3
• Inspiration for playbook https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way
• ✅ Resolved: we will have 1-2 weeks doc/writing/planning in between doathon