[theme-reviewers] Accessibility Auditing of themes - next steps

[Joe Dolson]

I've updated the theme review guidelines for Accessibility to take into
account the various suggestions and requests from my conversation with
Chip; I'm hoping this new version provides some better guidance for users
intending to make their themes more accessible.

Let me know your thoughts!

Best,
Joe


On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Sami Keijonen <sami.keijonen at foxnet.fi>wrote:

> Thanks for the tip Taryn! Let's not talk about browser support in this
> topic.
>
>
> On 29 March 2013 10:40, Phenomenoodle | Taryn Wallis <
> taryn at phenomenoodle.com> wrote:
>
>> Background images can scale if you use the background-size CSS property
>> with % and auto (e.g. background-size: 100% auto;)
>>
>> ______________________________
>> *Taryn Wallis*
>> Phenomenoodle
>> WordPress design & development
>> www.phenomenoodle.com
>> +44 1875 34 0044
>> +44 774 839 8473
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Sami Keijonen <sami.keijonen at foxnet.fi>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I may have missed something, but generally, custom header images, if
>>>> using the core custom header functionality, are shown as CSS
>>>> backgrounds. That's the easiest and most compatible way to do it,
>>>> especially if you're designing to look good on mobile too.
>>>>
>>>> Now, I grant you that you don't *have* to do it that way, but
>>>> twenty-eleven/twelve/thirteen all do, and I expect many themes have
>>>> copied code from them. Twenty Ten, notably, did not do it that way and
>>>> used an IMG tag, with a blank alt.
>>>>
>>>> -Otto
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>
>>>
>>> There are pros and cons using custom header image as CSS backgrounds.
>>> Good thing is that you can show it only on larger screens with media
>>> queries and large header background don't get loaded on mobile. Not so good
>>> thing is that background image don't scale. Imagine that header image is a
>>> band image. In smaller screens only quitar player curly hair would be seen.
>>>
>>> So my opinion is leave alt tag blank when using it as an image, not CSS
>>> background.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sami Keijonen
>>> Fox Holding Oy
>>> sami.keijonen at foxnet.fi
>>> www.foxnet.fi
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