On Thursday, September 27th, 2012, I wrote this email to the WordPress theme reviewers email list (which is now defunct.) So, this is my first post to the theme-reviewers list, so I hope I’m proposing this in the best possible place. I’ve been in a number of discussions with people in the Accessibility and the WordPress communities about the need to improve accessibility in WordPress themes — or, more specifically, improve the ability to locate accessible WordPress themes which have […]
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Tricky issues: Accessible WordPress Themes
One of my volunteer activities is to manage accessibility reviews for the WordPress accessibility-ready theme project. I do many of the accessibility audits, and try and help other reviewers and authors figure out what is needed for their themes. The guidelines and how to test for them is documented extensively in the Accessibility guidelines for Themes. There are some quirks to auditing themes for accessibility. Themes are not Websites, and that has consequences. These quirks have to do with the […]
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Just to disclose the truth: I don’t really hate themes. But as a plug-in developer with tens of thousands of users, what I hate is undisclosed conflicts – and themes are a big part of that problem. We’re talking about tech support. The other day, Pippin Williamson posted this Tweet: “If you’re a #WordPress theme developer, please do not modify file upload locations. There is zero reasons a theme should be doing that.“ Why shouldn’t a theme developer change the […]
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