We’ve now completed the draft Theme Accessibility Audit Criteria and have settled on a proposed new theme tag: accessibility-ready. We’re now discussing how the new Accessibility Audit can be added to the workflow of the Theme Review Team. As this is going to involve some programmatic changes to the current theme submission system, this might take some time to iron out but I’ll try to keep everyone updated with the progress.
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Jay Collier 3:50 pm on November 12, 2012 Permalink
Thanks for continuing to work on this!
Marin 2:22 pm on November 16, 2012 Permalink
We appreciate your effort!
GrahamArmfield 9:03 am on November 22, 2012 Permalink
Been v busy on client work recently, but could we start to flag up the upcoming accessibility improvements in the admin screens in 3.5. I know there are still some changes being made but progress has been good. I’ve summarised some of the changes in a blog post – http://www.coolfields.co.uk/2012/11/wordpress-3-5-accessibility-update-november-2012/
Will comment on your other excellent work soon.
esmi 1:21 pm on November 22, 2012 Permalink
Will get onto this asap.
esmi 3:56 pm on November 26, 2012 Permalink
Done. See Core Accessibility Updates.
GrahamArmfield 12:44 pm on January 9, 2013 Permalink
The TOCs for the Plugin and Theme Developer Handbooks are now being worked on. Accessibility does feature in both which is good, but we should keep an eye on those to make sure it’s not an afterthought.
See http://make.wordpress.org/docs/2013/01/09/handbooks-step-1-creating-the-table-of-contents/
esmi 12:57 pm on January 9, 2013 Permalink
I’m on the Support/Docs team already and Siobhan has me listed as a contact point for the Accessibility sections of each of the Handbooks. As soon as each of the handbooks reach a point where we can contribute, I’ll post here so that we can hammer out some drafts. I also think we need to look over the handbooks themselves at some point and check that they, too, are as accessible as possible.