Yellow dye-containing developing composition and its use in two-stage processing of roomlight handleable black-and-white photographic elements

A processing kit comprising:

• a) a black-and-white developing composition comprising:
• from about 0.1 to about 0.5 mol/l of a black-and-white developing agent,
• at least 1 weight % of a water-soluble colorant that has a maximum absorption wavelength of from about 350 to about 500 nm, and
• from about 0.1 to about 0.7 mol/l of a sulfite, and
• b) one or more of the components selected from:
• a fixing composition comprising a fixing agent other than a sulfite,
• a processing container, and
• a black-and-white photographic silver halide element comprising a support having thereon one or more layers, at least one of said layers being a silver halide emulsion layer, said element further comprising:
• in one of said layers, a microcrystalline particulate dye that absorbs electromagnetic radiation in the visible and UV portions of the spectrum and is decolorized with a sulfite, and
• in each silver halide emulsion layer, a desensitizer that reduces sensitivity of the silver halide emulsion layer to electromagnetic radiation in the visible portion of the spectrum by trapping electrons generated by exposure to that electromagnetic radiation.