CZI proposal on accessibility: steering council approval

[trallard]

Hey y'all

I am opening this issue as @isabela-pf @tonyfast and I are working on a CZI EOSS proposal on accessibility for Jupyter

See issue: jupyter/accessibility#36
Submitted letter of intent: jupyter/accessibility#44

I know there is no formal process (yet) to apply for funding but there are a couple of discussions happening in #96 and #97 hence I would like to request formal approval from the steering council to move forward with this work

Let me know if there is any other information I'd need to provide

[Carreau]

I Approved both.

disclosure: I work at Quansight with @trallard.

[minrk]

Enthusiastic support from me!

[fperez]

I haven't been involved with the accessibility work for a while, but I'm delighted to see forward motion on this!

Just to note, as I looked around the relevant materials I saw you posted the proposal draft (thx for doing that, just linking it here as it's relevant for anyone giving feedback/input).

I'm enthusiastically in support of this work - I trust you've all coordinated on the accessibility repo so that all the relevant folks are in the loop. Specifically, from an (admittedly quick) reading of the proposal draft, I see that in addition to documentation and overall assessment of accessibility issues, you have some technical aims on a few specific projects - the pydata sphinx theme, jupyterbook and jupyterlab. I think it would be valuable to have feedback from some of those teams that they're +1 on the proposed ideas/plan to ensure good overall coordination.

But assuming that such coordination is in place (at a high-level, obviously, given it's early stages and not even funded yet), a very enthusiastic +1 from me, combined with gratitude that you're tackling this critical area of the project!

[fperez]

ps - I also sent a quick reminder to the steering council list so we get as much feedback as possible. We're doing our best to not have private discussions in the SC list so everyone participates here, but a little "heads up" email to that list is often useful to remind folks to come back here to the public spaces :)

[willingc]

I'm enthusiastically in support of this work - I trust you've all coordinated on the accessibility repo so that all the relevant folks are in the loop

@fperez They certainly have 😄 jupyter/accessibility#44

+1 from me.

[ivanov]

I support this effort, thank you for coordinating it!

[willingc]

@fperez Can this be closed now that the proposal has been submitted.

[damianavila]

Can this be closed now that the proposal has been submitted.

I am not @fperez but I think we can close it now 😉