[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #7980: Add accessibility ready plugin business model
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#7980: Add accessibility ready plugin business model
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Reporter: threadi | Owner: (none)
Type: defect (bug) | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Plugin Directory | Resolution: invalid
Keywords: |
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Comment (by joedolson):
Without a specific strategy and personnel availability to perform the
accessibility testing, this isn't a practical goal. The Plugin Review team
is not specialized in accessibility, and the accessibility team doesn't
have the time available to do this.
The theme review process has methods for testing, but that's because
themes offer a relatively fixed set of interfaces serving very specific
purposes. These are predictable, and can be tested according to a
consistent set of rules.
Plugins, however, do not have any such limitations. The time required just
to identify *what* needs to be tested for many plugins is greater than the
total time required to test a theme.
So before any consideration can be given to a mechanism to label plugins
as accessible, there needs to be enough labor available to actually do
this.
I would also agree with @Otto42 that the business model is not a sensible
place to have this information. It makes the most sense to keep it as a
tag, but introduce testing procedures. But we can't underestimate just how
much work that would be to maintain.
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Ticket URL: <https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7980#comment:2>
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