Team update - Oct 26, 2022

[trallard]

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**Thanks I'd like to give 🙌**
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**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 💬**
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- I opened #NN for discussion, please chime in
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[isabela-pf]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

Updates from last week ✔️

• Curate JupyterLab themes #133 following up on the other app zoom review behaviors, we have the collaborative HackMD we used to review earlier this week. I turned our results into a table for easy comparison.
• Test out a new contribution event! #132 the keyboard navigation event has become an issue! Wow! That's the first attempt done. I also have notes on some feedback to address prior to the next round.
• accessible-pygments blog post with Stephannie is now in PR form.
• Rendered notebook user testing - Round 1 #146 pushed more resources for test 1's work in progress PR. I still need to do the synthesis work. I also made a tiny amount of progress starting the test 2 script.

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

• I'm surviving.

My availability for next week

• I'll be out on October 31 and November 4. 🎃

Important items for discussion 💬

• I don't think I have anything right now. I'm still trying to get feedback on zoom for JupyterLab, but I'm not sure how we call that done.

[steff456]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• @isabela-pf for addressing the comments of the blog post

Updates from last week ✔️

• I added two new themes for the accessible-pygments package - PR: Add gotthard light and dark theme accessible-pygments#14
• Started investigating the status of jupyterlab accessible themes repo:
  • The repo right now is very similar to the output of the jupyterlab's cookie cutter
  • The contents cannot be installable, so I'm not sure what's inside of it - all the readme instructions don't work
  • For future tasks inside the repo, I think we need to do a big cleanup and fix the repo
• Realized that pygments isn't used as a backend for syntax highlighting in Jupyterlab
  • Right now jupyterlab uses marked.js which defaults to highlight.js, so we are not going to be able to use the accessible pygments extension
  • There's some issues regarding how to use pygments for the output of the cells

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

• Defining what to do with accessible-pygments and next steps for color issues.

My availability for next week

• I'll be here

Important items for discussion 💬

• Next steps for the theme issue,
  • Do we want Jupyter themes with the colors of the themes available in accessible-pygments?

[gabalafou]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• @kulsoomzahra for putting in a lot of effort on the blog post!
• @isabela-pf for helping me on the internship blog post

Updates from last week ✔️

• Helped Kulsoom finish blog post
• Action to run accessibility tests and create markdown report jupyter-a11y-testing#25 - created PR of my testing work from the past two weeks
• Working on fixing keyboard navigation issues in JupyterLab. Right now, I'm focussing on focus indicators.

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

• I had a hard time figuring out what to do with the internship blog post, but @isabela-pf helped me out.
• I need to do contrast ratio checking in the Playwright tests but I'm not sure what library or algorithm to use.

My availability for next week

• Here all week!

Important items for discussion 💬

• I'm not sure how I should stage and sequence my work on keyboard navigability. There are a lot of small changes I want to make. Each small change should be its own PR, but they should probably all ship together to avoid UX churn. For example, one of the changes I want to make is to put a visible focus indicator around each UI element that can receive focus. This would result in visible focus rings around the file names in the file browser. However, in another PR, I want to remove the files from the tab index. I don't want each individual file to be navigable by the tab key; rather, the user should tab into the file list and then use the up/down arrow keys to select individual files.
• I have questions about color contrast and the new WCAG 2.2 guidelines for the focus indicator

[isabela-pf]

Follow up notes:

• Stephannie: has ideas of how to move forward with accessible-pygments, but needs to see if they are aligned with Tania's plans. They have time scheduled for this.
• Gabriel asking for some review on Action to run accessibility tests and create markdown report jupyter-a11y-testing#25
  • Isabela to review contents of test-info-pages
  • Stephannie to review anything!