Team update - Mar 30, 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 🙌

• @gabalafou gets kudos for the file browser checkbox PR! Hooray!
• @tonyfast thank you for enduring!

Updates from last week ✔️

• I have not gotten to do anything for the grant this week, it's been napari alt text mode. I have time scheduled to work on this tomorrow.

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

• Nothing comes to mind right now, thank you!

My availability for next week

• I'll be here all next week.

[gabalafou]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• Thanks to all of you for backing me up in helping me align my allocations with priorities (specifically supporting my need to back down from Conda Store)

Updates from last week ✔️

• I put up my first JupyterLab PR: Add checkboxes to file browser jupyterlab/jupyterlab#12299

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

• Michał Krassowski raised an issue on my PR about my code interfering with jupyterlab-unfold that I'm trying to figure out

My availability for next week

• I'll be traveling to Las Vegas this weekend, flying back on Tuesday. I'm not taking any time off but just giving you all a heads up :)

[trallard]

• @gabalafou plans/priorities:

  • move the PR ⚡ ⚡ and get it into Jlab
  • MVP for Jupyterlab repo with @trallard -> let me know how you want to work on this? tag-team/pair-programming?

• @tonyfast plans/priorities:

  • will get back to refactoring the automation https://github.com/jupyter/accessibility

• @trallard plans/priorities:

  • work on MVP with @gabalafou
  • plan for the a11y playbookand set concrete steps

  open question:

  • How can we embed ourselves into the accessibility community?
  • How can we build participatory pathways for accessibility experts?