[theme-reviewers] New theme tags for 3.8

[Bass Jobsen]

Hi Joe,

I read your message about the 'accessibility-ready' and found it
very interesting. I'm a theme developer, so probably on the wrong list.
I will try to get this a 'accessibility-ready' tag for my theme although my
first target will be to get my theme approved at all (
http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15659).

I read
http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-accessibility/ and
find many don't but less howto or alternatives. I will give you an example,
i read "display:none removes the concealed object from screen reader’s
reading, and should not be used." I understand the meaning. Now finding a
good solution doesn't same easy. My theme use Twitter's Bootstrap. Both
Bootstrap and i paid attention to accessibility, see:
http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/#accessibility and
https://github.com/bassjobsen/jamedo-bootstrap-start-theme/issues/35

Although a default component the dropdown adds accessibility, see;
http://getbootstrap.com/components/#dropdowns it doesn't meet the
requirement of not using "display:none". Accessibility can be add by the
sr-only class and using aria-labelledby attributes, but there still will be
a "display:none".
In the case the dropdown adds additional information the content will be
hidden for all users. So maybe the requirement should be content with
"display:none" should be accessible for all users (for example also via a
sr-only button).
I also look for alternative solutions. You will find some here:
http://css-tricks.com/places-its-tempting-to-use-display-none-but-dont/.
Some solution requires javascript (or you show hide only when javascript is
on) which maybe introduce other accessibility issues.

Regards,

Bass


2013/12/11 Joe Dolson <design at joedolson.com>

> In addition to the fixed-layout, fluid-layout, and responsive-layout, the
> 'accessibility-ready' tag is going live in WP 3.8.
>
> For that tag, the guidelines at the theme accessibility review docs will
> need to be followed, in addition to the standard tags:
> http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-accessibility/
>
> If anybody needs any help handling a review that's using the
> accessibility-ready tag, ping me with the ticket and I'll happily chime in.
>
> Best,
> Joe
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> As part of the 3.8 release scheduled for next week, one of the changes
>> has to do with the allowed tags in themes.
>>
>> The old "Width" tags have been deprecated in favor of new "Layout" tags,
>> which are considered to better describe actual usage.
>>
>> - The "fixed-width" tag has become "fixed-layout".
>> - The "flexible-width" tag has become "fluid-layout".
>> - Finally, a new tag of "responsive-layout" was added.
>>
>> Currently, theme-check will fail these tags and disallow the upload. As
>> of 3.8's release, this will be changed to allow these new tags and to give
>> a warning about the old ones.
>>
>> With regards to theme searching, the old -width tags are aliased to the
>> new tags. So searching for "fixed-layout" will also find "fixed-width"
>> tags, and vice-versa. This is intended to not affect older themes or to
>> impact those themes ability to be searched for in any way, as well as to
>> allow themes using the new tags to continue to be found by pre-3.8
>> installations using the old tags.
>>
>> As I make this switchover, I'm sure there will be a few minor bugs that
>> crop up here and there. Some of those bugs will impact your ability to
>> upload themes. Let me know about any such issues directly and I'll correct
>> them as soon as possible.
>>
>> You can read more about the changes here:
>> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21442<http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21442#comment:28>
>>
>> -Otto
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
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