[theme-reviewers] Accessibility Auditing of themes progress

[Emil Uzelac]

Hi Joe,

I have to agree, this is definitely great!

Thanks,
Emil

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Kirk Wight <kwight at kwight.ca> wrote:

> Great job Joe, very detailed and specific.
>
> Can you post an example/download of a theme that would meet all of these
> requirements, if you know of one? I have a hard time imagining how various
> sections would be implemented (Link Text, Keyboard Navigation and Skip
> Links are my first questions marks). Seeing actual code would really help
> imagining the work that would be involved in reviewing a theme of this
> nature.
>
> Thanks for all of your work!
>
>
> On 23 October 2012 17:12, Joe Dolson <design at joedolson.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> =======
>> 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
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