[theme-reviewers] Managing the Accessibility-Ready tag

[Joe Dolson]

Looks like I cited the wrong ticket; regardless, the theme was not reviewed
for accessibility in that ticket, either.

Best,
Joe


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> accessibility tag was added in
> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15738 and not in
> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16122
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Joe Dolson <design at joedolson.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, theme reviewers!
>>
>> I was just checking up on the usage of the accessibility-ready tag, and I
>> observed something I want to bring up. Specifically, that any theme that
>> comes up for review which either
>>
>> - Adds the tag accessibility-ready from a previous version or,
>> - Is a child theme of a theme with accessibility-ready
>>
>> needs to go through an accessibility review process.
>>
>> I'm seeing two issues, one illustrated by
>> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16122, in which a previously
>> existing theme added the accessibility-ready tag but was approved on diff,
>> and a second, illustrated in a couple of cases by child themes or offshoots
>> of Twenty Fourteen, such as
>> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15736.
>>
>> In the first case, adding the accessibility-ready tag means that we need
>> to verify that the tag is justified. In the second case, we need to verify
>> that the changes to the theme don't break accessibility issues - any of
>> these child themes are making significant color scheme changes, so the
>> color contrast of the palette needs to be re-verified.
>>
>> I just want to make sure that people are being conscious of what the
>> accessibility-ready tag implies for a theme, and that it really needs to
>> get particular checking.
>>
>> Best,
>> Joe
>>
>>
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>> http://www.joedolson.com
>> http://profiles.wordpress.org/joedolson
>>
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