[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40138: Bundled themes: the tag cloud widget should output a list

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#40138: Bundled themes: the tag cloud widget should output a list
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 Reporter:  afercia            |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement        |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Bundled Theme      |    Version:
 Severity:  normal             |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui, accessibility  |
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 Splitting this out from #35566

 Bundled themes should show best practices to theme authors. About the Tag
 Cloud widget, the latest patch on #35566 proposes some accessibility
 improvements, however it doesn't force the tags to be output as an
 unordered list to avoid the need to output some inline stylesheet.

 A better option would be using the `format` argument to tweak the output
 on a case by case basis.

 From a semantic perspective, the tags list is... well, a list. Setting the
 `format` argument to `list` would allow assistive technologies to announce
 the list as a list and the number of items in the list. Most of the users
 from the a11y testers group expressed a preference to have the number of
 items being announced, see the test results on #35566.

 This would require some simple CSS adjustments, which is trivial to do in
 the Themes stylesheet.

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