[theme-reviewers] Accessibility Auditing of themes progress

[Edward Caissie]

I agree with the others, a sample theme (even a Child-Theme) would be quite
helpful in reviewing how the process/code may be reviewed.


Cais.


On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Vicky Arulsingam <
vicky.arulsingam at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great job Joe!
>
> I don't have any objections to the outlined process flow but a real life
> example of all the things we need to be on the look out for would be great.
>
> Regarding the color contrast, is it okay to use this tool:
> http://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html
>
>
> Vicky
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:12 AM, 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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