Comments on: Small steps

by: Clair

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I think this sounds like a really interesting project, I’d be up for getting involved.

by: pixeldiva

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Okay, couple of off the top of me ‘ead ideas:

Need to set a standard of accessibility that all the templates need to meet, or at least, each template states which level of accessibility it meets.

Suggest A as minimum, but would be better if it got as close to AA as possible.

All templates really should be reviewed by someone other than the author to confirm level of accessibility of basic templates and to ensure that the “style guide” for want of a better word includes adequate instructions so that if someone follows them they’ll meet the aimed for standard.

It should be stated that once the template is “in the wild” that the responsibility for maintenance of accessibility falls on the user of the template, not the author.

More later…

by: Daisy

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Great news Clair!

Pix, you is a genius (again) ;-0)

by: briggy

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

…but surely daisy you can sum all of this up in a cute pic of a daschund balancing a pint of beer on his nose for us technical deficients!

by: Clair

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

opensauce.org appears to be currently available, and I do think that it’s a great name.

by: Daisy

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Clair, I have this vague memory at the back of my mind that you have to be a registered charity/non profit to qualify for a dot org?

by: Clair

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I don’t think so. I’ll have a look though.

by: pixeldiva

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I don’t think they ever actually check on those, unless there’s a naming conflict, and for that, I doubt there would be…

by: Eliza

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I have plenty of dot org’s. Pixeldiva is quite correct, provided their is no naming conflict abnyone is free to use dot orgs.

I like some of your proposals, and really like the opensauce.org domain ;-)

by: Andrea

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I like playing with WordPress a lot and try to make sure that my site validates, but I have no clue about accessibility, oops?

Um, I could probably provide links and stuff and help with WordPress questions and tell people that deciding not to have your links underlined and then making them almost the exact same color as the normal text is really uncool, and um, that’s about it? And I usually steal my templates from kind CSS people and fiddle around with them a little, so I can’t provide these either. Oops.

So, er, I’m up for it, but I’ll be pretty useless.