Hello everyone. The meeting notes from the themes review team discussion on March 8, 2022. The themes team meets second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 15:00 UTC.
This week’s meeting agendas can be found here. Thank you @kafleg for preparing the agenda. The meeting was facilitated by @kafleg. The note was taken by @Benachi. You can read the full transcript on our #themereview channel.
1. Weekly updates
The themes team published weekly updates about tickets and HelpScout emails.
Here is the theme statistic for the past 7 days. The most current stats can be found here.
- 441 tickets were opened
- 447 tickets were closed:
- 435 tickets were made live.
- 22 new Themes were made live.
- 413 Theme updates were made live.
- 0 more were approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 12 tickets were not-approved.
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.
- 435 tickets were made live.
Number of reviewers: 2
Block Themes:
0 block themes are live in the past 7 days.
2. Updates
Accessibility guidelines update:
Headings requirement has been revised for accessibility-ready themes. The following requirements are now acceptable.
- Multiple
<h1> - Skip hierarchical levels
Please note the above practices are acceptable but still highly discouraged. Learn more about the headings requirement. Big thanks to @joedolson.
Accessibility for block themes:
Currently, there are no block themes that meet the accessibility requirements. This ticket discusses how block themes can be more accessible by identifying current accessibility problems in blocks and improving the accessibility testing process. Learn more detail here.
Defining guidelines for the child theme:
@thinkupthemes suggested defining guidelines for the child themes. View full conversation here.
3. Open Floor
No questions or comments related to the theme review were brought during the open floor. But @kafleg asked the attendees about their plan to attend WordCamp Europe 2022. Some of the attendees are planning to attend. We’ll come up with the details about Contributors Day soon.