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esmi 12:19 pm on February 14, 2013
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Post Revisons Update

I managed to drop into the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. IRC meeting yesterday and was told that the our recent feedback on the new concepts for post revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. was very helpful. New screenshot mockups have now been created to incorporate fixes for the issues that we raised.

Coding on the new post revisions may begin shortly, so let’s keep an eye on the outstanding tickets and new developments. In the meantime, thank you to everyone who took part in the post revision discussion and let’s keep up the good work.

We can make a difference! 🙂

#core-2, #revisions

esmi 11:30 am on February 8, 2013
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Post Revisions in 3.6

The Post Revisions are currently being overhauled for WordPress 3.6. The team responsible are at the concept stage & they’ve asked asked us to provide feedback now on their current mock-ups.

I have already raised the point elsewhere that perhaps a red/green combination isn’t the best of choices but I do think that the potential barriers here could be greatly mitigated if one of the mock-ups with strike-through (currently the favoured approach) was chosen. The screenshot below shows how these screens might be viewed by someone with the most common forum of colour blindness (protanopia).

Full size mockup of protanopia view

Seems to me that the markup used could also greatly enhance accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) here — with proper use of both the <ins> and <del> HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. tags.

Any other thoughts?

#revisions

Graham Armfield 12:28 pm on February 6, 2013
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Are Trac Tickets Still the Best Way to get Accessibility Improvements in WordPress?

Last year, as a result of a number of tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets raised by myself and others, a number of accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) improvements were made to the WP admin screens in 3.5. This was a good thing in that it showed that some WP developers were happy to address the challenges with existing functionality. And for existing accessibility issues I suppose this is still the right vehicle.

However, I’m troubled with this approach when I think about new functionality that is being developed within every release of WordPress. So far in 3.6 I’m seeing that there are going to be significant changes to the UIs for Custom Menus, Post Formats, and Post RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. – and there may be others.

It feels to me that there is a disconnect here. All these new and ‘improved’ features seem to get hammered out and developed without accessibility really being thought about. Using trac tickets here to raise accessibility issues seems like trying to bolt the stable door after the horse has departed.

I think it would be a disaster if these new features are developed without some consideration for accessibility, and I’m sure we can all agree that it’s a lot more work to retrofit accessibility into developments. In fact sometimes it’s not really possible – when the design is so alien to accessibility.

I’d hate to see Custom Menus, Post Formats, Post Revisions become the next accessibility disasters – like Theme CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings., and the new Add Media Panel.

Is there anything we can do to ensure that this doesn’t happen?

#menus, #post-formats, #revisions

esmi 3:51 pm on January 8, 2013
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WordPress 3.6: Revisions

The CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team are about to start looking at some improvements around the Post/Page revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision.. From an a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) perspective, the Compare Revisions display needs some serious work. It’s currently a tabled form with no labels and multiple links with identical text. So I’ve put forwards some suggestions for changes.

#revisions