Accessibility Team
The Accessibility Team reviews Plone's readability for the visually impaired.
Mission
To make Plone/Volto usable by everyone.
To make accessibility a core and non negotiable part of Plone, ensuring every user, whatever their ability or assistive technology, can fully use what the community builds.
Tasks & Responsibilities
- Auditing the Volto/Aurora, and Blicca frontend against WCAG 2.1 AA and tracking what still needs fixing
- Reviewing new features and pull requests for accessibility before they ship
- Building reusable accessible patterns and guidance that the wider Plone community can adopt
- Testing Plone with real assistive technologies such as screen readers and keyboard only navigation
- Working with the Marketing Team to share Plone's accessibility progress and track record
- Welcoming and mentoring new contributors who want to improve accessibility
Members
- Wagner Trezub - Volto Accessibility team lead - Frontend-dev
- Wesley Barroso Lopes
- Matheus Nunes Santana
- David Ichim
- Paul Roeland
- Brian Davis
- Matt Barkau
- Jakob Kahl - Board Liaison
Contact email
How to Join
- Send us an email. We'd love to meet you!
- Attend team meetings.
- Attend a sprint. The annual Salamina Sprint and Cerrado Sprint often have a strong a11y focus.
Regular Meeting Time
- Tri-weekly, Wednesdays, 10:00 UTC
Resources
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