Well written Mel!<br><br>Obviously there is passion behind this cause and support from "core" as well ... it would seem the <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/accessibility">http://make.wordpress.org/accessibility</a> group has a strong position to lobby for an additional tag to be added to the theme repository. Perhaps three tags: Accessibility-A, Accessibility-AA, and Accessibility-AAA? Just some food for thought ...<br>
<br>... and you would have my support for a new tag(s) based on these discussions, too.<br><br><br clear="all">Cais.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Bryan Hadaway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bhadaway@gmail.com" target="_blank">bhadaway@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<b>SOLD</b><br><br>Okay, honestly, you've made a really solid case and I almost feel I want to do my part to help now. You've got me thinking about it (it's my obsessive nature) and now I'm considering making some of my themes as accessible as possible (which I think about in general, but perhaps not enough).<br>
<br>I could go point by point and rebuttal and clarify a lot, but I feel a bit suffocated by your passion vs my somewhat interest (and slight laziness at the moment) in the matter and I really think it would be overkill to do so, so I'll just say my generalized open-ended way of speaking (and use of synonyms in my mind) often clashes with those that speak in very literal terms which I think is one of the biggest issues here as far as misinterpretation and misunderstanding and disagreement. Overall though you've made some great valid points that has changed my perspective in the matter, good work :).<div class="im">
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<br>"<i>Instead what is being suggested is an additional OPTIONAL review only
for those who WISH to flag their submitted theme as accessible.</i>"<br><br></div>This was obviously my biggest concern and you've clarified to the point that I think I'm on board. Perhaps themes that are tagged "accessible" (and to be accessible perhaps the criteria should be that at least x number of accessible features are in place or at least <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1A-Conformance" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1A-Conformance</a> is met) could be placed in their own separate ticket category so reviewers know exactly what kind of attention the theme needs right away? If someone already suggested that, apologies (I'm in skim mode a bit).<br>
<br>So, you've turned my stubbornness into a vote. I was wrong. There can be reasonable improvement in this area, I'm going to take a nap now and then analyze and update some of my themes with accessibility in mind.<div class="HOEnZb">
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