We’ve made lots of progress in the past week and will be holding another meeting tomorrow, Tuesday February 3 2015 16:00 UTC, in #core-customize Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. The accessibility 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) team did an extensive review and we’ve addressed nearly all of the issues that can be fixed in the plugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party (big props to @afercia especially for reviewing and patching some of the issues). I made several core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. tickets (some with patches, some good-first-bugs) for some of the other issues that came up during the review.
@designsimply and @vizkr have been working on formal and informal user tests as well. It’s been a little tricky to try to nudge users in the direction of the Theme Switcher in the Customizer 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. without explicitly asking them to change the theme, but they haven’t had any negative feedback or expressed that having themes in the Customizer felt at all out of place. We’ve made a couple of minor adjustments both to the plugin (improving the filter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. to search for tags without hyphens) and the prompts, and additional tests are in-progress. We’d like to encourage anyone that can to do informal in-person testing, asking for feedback on the workflows and/or comparing the themes admin (and super admin) screen to themes in the Customizer.
Our biggest remaining decision is whether to change the title of the “themes” section in the Customizer. Currently, it’s “Theme: Current Theme”. Open to suggestions here; we’ll tweak it for screen readers regardless if it works for everyone else as-is, but I’m not convinced that it’s the most discoverable option currently.
Here’s an agenda for the meeting:
- Usertesting.com testing update – @designsimply
- Theme section heading title discussion
- Informal testing/feedback updates – anyone
- Accessibility updates: ready for (or do we need) another round of testing for the plugin? – @afercia
- Outstanding issues – anyone
- Final proposal and core patch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing./merge plan and timing – @MarkJaquith, me, @DrewAPicture
#customize, #theme-switcher, #themes
