Product Accessibility Group

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• Attributes
  • Context
  • Exit Criteria
    • Exit Criteria Progress
  • Roles and Responsibilities

Attributes

Property	Value
Date Created	2023-07-19
Target End Date	TBD
Slack	#wg_product_accessibility (only accessible from within the company)
Google Doc	Agenda (only accessible from within the company)
Epic	HQ epic
Overview & Status	See Exit Criteria Progress

Context

Since we were able to create a proof of concept with axe-core to automate accessibility checks in feature specs, we would like to include these assertions in the most of the GitLab feature specs, as well as in GitLab UI components codebase. This will allow us to ensure that GitLab accessibility compliance covers at least 57% of the WCAG guidelines (percent of accessibility issues that can be automated). It will also let us shift left our efforts to provide an accessible platform, by giving developers an easy way to monitor how introduced changes influence compliance. This initiative will entail writing tests, understanding existing violations, and finding ways to fix or document them.

Stakeholders for this project include frontend engineers, backend engineers and product designers.

Exit Criteria

This Working Group has the following goals:

1. Include axe automated accessibility checks in automated feature tests.
2. Include axe automated accessibility checks in GitLab UI and write tests for components.
3. Compile a comprehensive list of known accessibility violations.
4. Develop and implement a plan for addressing accessibility violations, including evaluation plan/process and tooling.
5. Identify and bridge the gaps in accessibility frontend guide.
6. Validate existing issues regarding accessibility.
7. Plan for internal training.

Exit Criteria Progress

Criteria	Start Date	Completed Date	Progress	DRI
Add axe-core checks to feature specs	15-08-2023		20%	@psjakubowska
Add axe-core checks to components specs	15-08-2023		33%	@rchanila
Address accessibility violations			0%	@you?
Validate existing accessibility issues			0%	@you?

Roles and Responsibilities

Working Group Role	Person	Title
Executive Sponsor	Tim Zallmann	Senior Director of Engineering, Dev
Facilitator
Functional Lead	Paulina Sędłak-Jakubowska	Frontend Engineer, Monitor:Respond
Functional Lead	Rahul Chanila	Senior Frontend Engineer, Package
Functional Lead	Jeremy Elder	Staff Product Designer, Manage:Foundations
Member	Enrique Alcántara	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Editor
Member	Lisa Falcone	Senior Paralegal, Legal & Corporate Affairs
Member	Scott de Jonge	Senior Frontend Engineer, Manage:Foundations
Member	Rajan Mistry	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Member	Deepika Guliani	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management