[theme-reviewers] Managing the Accessibility-Ready tag

[Srikanth Koneru]

Its the way it is probably because not everyone can do the accessibility
review and themes with that tag will be stuck in queue forever.
If we can CC you to do the accessibility review part then maybe we can have
the theme pass that test first before going live.


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Joe Dolson <design at joedolson.com> wrote:

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