Team update - Jul 13, 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 🙌**
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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**
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**Important items for discussion 💬**
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[isabela-pf]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• Thanks to @gabalafou and @tonyfast for test result clarifications!

Updates from last week ✔️

• Curate JupyterLab themes #133.
  • New theming review checklist PR.
  • And a comment for the non-color review mentioned last check in. I definitely have some questions here, like how to check for some of the options.
• Want notes from STScI meetings? Here they are/will be.

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

• I don't know. I'm sure there's something.

My availability for next week

• I'll be out of office on Thursday the 21st.

Important items for discussion 💬

• I don't think I have anything today.

[trallard]

🍯 - recap:

1. @trallard - needs to follow up with Berkley folks regarding a11y work
2. All to review: https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/07/11/new-campus-committee-will-focus-on-digital-accessibility/
3. Recap from a11y bi-weekly call https://hackmd.io/WnaWXboXSiGoqWvev_fAvA

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TODO:

1. @tonyfast work needs review A jupyter extension packaging for dark and light themes jupyterlab-accessible-themes#1
2. review @isabela-pf checklist [WIP]: Theming checklist accessibility#9
3. Need to document the use of GitPod for JupyterLab inspo from https://numpy.org/devdocs/dev/development_gitpod.html
4. @trallard to read https://hackmd.io/f2appgefQwWZEtlDfDA4Fw
5. Look at the team compass cookie-cutter WIP - https://github.com/jupyter/team-compass-template to align with what needs to go into our team compass as per [ENH] - Restructure this repo and adopt a compass jupyter/accessibility#86
6. @gabalafou to move the testing bits from Jupyter/accessibility to https://github.com/Quansight-Labs/jupyter-a11y-testing

[gabalafou]

I'm late on this update, sorry!

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• @tonyfast for keeping our sights broad. (great discussion of how to make this work long-term sustainable on Thursday)

Updates from last week ✔️

• I worked towards opening a PR to upstream my fork of expect-axe-playwright but it's not up yet.

My availability for next week

• Here!