Team update - Mar 02, 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.

Copy and paste the template below, and answer questions as you wish!

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 🙌

• Just a big thanks to the forces that be that I can work on accessibility at all.

Updates from last week ✔️

• I've been spending more time lining things up for the Jupyter accessibility workshop, so I don't have too much to show.
• Checked in about SPEC stuff with collaborator. I think I know what next steps are needed now.

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

• I can't think of anything at the time of typing this.

My availability for next week

• I'll be here all week, just workshop scrambling.

[gabalafou]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• I'm not sure I ever thanked Tony for pointing me to https://github.com/jupyterlab/retrolab/issues/260. It's leading to a good first PR for me

Updates from last week ✔️

• Adding checkboxes to file browser (plus fixing accessibility issues where it makes sense - for example, mousedown versus mouseup)
• Note this means I have tabled working on jupyter/accessibility until I get a PR up for the file browser work

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

• Nothing at the moment. Just need a little more patience.

My availability for next week

• Available all next week

[isabela-pf]

Notes:

• Notebook units are called cells, comic book units are called cells. Tony demos using flexbox to format notebook cells like comic book pages.
• Yes, %% HTML at the top of the notebook will make the notebook rewrite itself based on the cell contents when it's run. This can be useful for testing styling ideas, prototyping and being able to send demos to people that they can run themselves.

Isabela:

• Trying to get workshop going
• Where could people help?
  • Need agenda for the Workshop/auditing event. When people run similar events, what did they like or not about auditing there?
  • Need a list of projects we'd like to audit (may just be "use what you have" and we have a repo directory or maybe we need to set up binders)
  • When Isabela makes slides, please give them review to make sure they make sense
  • Share the announcement blog (and register if you can make it!) when it goes up

Gabriel:

• Hooray for progress on the https://github.com/jupyterlab/retrolab/issues/260 work!
• Trying to not split time more, but focus on having this specific thing working.
• Needing to work with an area with less work around it, so need to work on tests for this project as well
• No blockers!