<div dir="ltr">I don't see this as something we need to put down in writing immediately ... I just felt it was something, at least form the TRT point of view that should be addressed at some point.<div><br></div><div>I do see this as something that should be addressed sooner rather than later, perhaps as a preemptive idea.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The basic premise being: a Child-Theme in the WordPress repository must be created from an already (recently) approved Parent-Theme. This could easily be extended to take into account the special tag "accessibility-ready" following the same ideal: an accessibility-ready Child-Theme must be created from an accessibility-ready Parent-Theme (within the bounds of the WordPress Theme repository).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Outside of the WordPress Theme repository anything goes but I think it would be a simple enough expectation within the repository to go forward with.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all">
<div>Edward Caissie<br>aka Cais.</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Joe Dolson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:design@joedolson.com" target="_blank">design@joedolson.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div>This has been on interesting conversation in the accessibility team, and we're pretty well split. Since it's an issue that's never yet come up, it's hard to apply any real world perspective on it, as well. <br>
<br></div>From the a11y team's perspective, being able to submit a child theme that implements accessibility is not the best way to get accessibility into a theme; but is sometimes the only way, when the primary developer isn't open to the suggestion. One member suggested that anybody wanting to submit a child theme that would do this would have to demonstrate that they'd already made an attempt to provide a11y fixes to the parent theme; but I'm not sure how that would work, practically speaking. <br>
<br></div>Do we need to make a decision on this right now, given that it hasn't come up yet?<br><br>Best,<br>Joe<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Edward Caissie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com" target="_blank">edward.caissie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">...for the purpose of discussion/argument, that we consider only allowing the "accessibility-ready" tag for Child Themes if the Parent Theme has the tag as well.</blockquote>
</div><br>This is the point I was putting forward.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br clear="all"><div>Edward Caissie<br>aka Cais.</div>
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