[theme-reviewers] Managing the Accessibility-Ready tag

[Srikanth Koneru]

http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-accessibility/
says accessibility review will be done after the theme/update is live.


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Joe Dolson <design at joedolson.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ==================
>>> Joseph Dolson
>>> Accessibility consultant & WordPress developer
>>> http://www.joedolson.com
>>> http://profiles.wordpress.org/joedolson
>>>
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>
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> Joseph Dolson
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