2025-04 CZI EOSS 6 Bokeh grant meeting

👥 Attendees

• Full name / Github handle / Organization
• Tania Allard / @trallard / Quansight Labs
• Pavithra Eswaramoorthy / @pavithraes / Quansight
• Mateusz
• Gabriel
• Philipp
• Smera
• Frank

📝 Agenda & Notes

Updates

• Gabriel
  • CSS vars #14349 PR ready for merge
  • Color system from Smera #14467 almost ready for review
• Mateusz
  • Finalized work on ARIA role and looking into adding other ARIA attribues.
  • Finalizing keyboard support.
  • Added support for togglable selectable text support on the canvas.
  • Reviews of Gabriel's and Smera's work.
• Pavithra
  • Presented talk at PyCon DE
  • Roadmap synthesis almost complete
  • Will work on the documentation tasks next
• Smera
  • Working on the widgets, using the prioritisation noted here: Widget interaction design prioritization - Bokeh
  • Will work on "Download Data" toolbar button next (#10567)

Discussions

• Discuss next step for keyboard navigation & screen reader support
• Discuss high-level grant deliverable, and which Bokeh version we want to aim for
• Design for Bokeh is mostly done with design system, icons, and widgets
  • Next, panel – set up a separate sync
• Accessing canvas elements like axes with divs available only to screen readers, is a viable approach

🚀 Action items

• Pavithra - Open a PR for new SVG icons