This week’s a little late meeting notes We…

This week’s (a little late) meeting notes

We met on Tuesday for our weekly meeting. This is every week at 18:00 UTC. You can find this week’s archive here:
https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/themereview/p1424800773003737

Notes:

  • @obenland came into talk about the theme directory which is being worked on over the next few days. It’s going to be exciting to see when done.
  • @davidakennedy came into talk about the 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) pattern library. He’ll be doing a write up on this and we’ll post it here as a link too.
  • @greenshady whilst wasn’t there brought to our attention how important checking the history of a theme you’re reviewing is.
  • @ryelle brought up the important talking point of design feedback. We had a good discussion hearing a lot of opinions and reviewing what has and hasn’t worked of us in the past. We all agreed it was important and a long path, but we needed to start on that long path. @melchoyce will be starting us off with filling out the design section of our recommendations: https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/review/recommended/design/. After that, we can look at next steps and keep this as a topic we come back to and keep important.

Contribution days with theme review:

This weekend will be a contribution day at Brighton and Hove, UK. There will be a theme review section there. http://www.meetup.com/WordUp-Brighton/events/218684194/
Are you planning on holding a theme review session at a contribution day or a session on it’s own? Let us know and we can tell everyone about it.