[theme-reviewers] Accessibility Auditing of themes progress

[Joe Dolson]

So, my last message on this fell silently to the earth...so, here goes again.

Mel and I have worked on a basic theme audit document with the
requirements for being approved
for an accessibility related tag. That document can be seen here, in draft form.

http://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/theme-accessibility-audit-draft-proposal/

Obviously, some questions require resolution from this group to be
able to finalize the document.

The specific next steps seem to be:

1) Reach consensus that these audit guidelines are acceptable and achievable.
2) Determine the text of the tag -- I'd suggest 'accessibility-ready'
is a good one; but I'm open-minded.
3) Update Tag Filter

Best,
Joe

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Review: Chip's steps to implementation:
1) Clearly defined requirements, ideally listed somewhere in the Codex
2) Updated Tag Filter
3) Identify accessibility guidelines that can be evaluated
programmatically via Theme-Check where possible
4) Identify accessibility guidelines that can be incorporated into the
Theme Unit Test Data where possible
5) Identify accessibility guidelines that can only be verified by a live person
6) Set up Theme-Trac workflow to shunt Themes using the Accessibility
tags into a separate queue
7) Volunteers to review Themes in the Accessibility queue in Theme-Trac