Theme Accessibility

Of course the theme is only part of the puzzle, but it is an important part of the puzzle. And just like ensuring that a theme looks decent in IE & Firefox before it's published, a developer should be taking a moment or two to do a quick validation.

The Firefox Extension WebDeveloper Toolkit is great. Makes it easy to check. For accessibility, Hera actually looks more useful, particularly for WCAG specs.

However just like initiatives within modules for coding standards, validation and lifting the bar by including unit testing, before downloading a theme, users should know if these themes validate and are designed to modern standards.

Having accessible themes is increasingly important both as the population ages and as we are designing for a more mobile, machine readable world. New standards, like RDFa are also already in Drupal 7's roadmap and also have theme implications.

We're trying to blog about accessibility and Drupal. Still a lot more to be done about this, and I will try to do some testing of themes in the future.

Ran across this tool the other day and wanted to add that there are no identified accessibility issues with this theme, great job!
http://wave.webaim.org/

adding accessibility tag