[theme-reviewers] Managing the Accessibility-Ready tag

[Joe Dolson]

Wow, yeah - it does say that. But I don't think that the work flow supports
that as a possibility. That needs to change in the review guidelines,
unless somebody knows a way it can actually be facilitated in the work flow.

That would only work if admins could actually edit the themes to remove
accessibility-ready tag, as far as I can imagine.

Any admin have a reason to think that should stay as is? The work flow
doesn't exist, so I don't think it's practical. The review needs to be done
at a point where the theme author can resubmit with accessibility fixes or
without the accessibility-ready tag, I think.

Best,
Joe


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>>
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