[theme-reviewers] Help to Review in Child Theme - Accessibility Ready Theme

[Edward Caissie]

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.

I do see this as something that should be addressed sooner rather than
later, perhaps as a preemptive idea.

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).

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.

Edward Caissie
aka Cais.


On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Joe Dolson <design at joedolson.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Do we need to make a decision on this right now, given that it hasn't come
> up yet?
>
> Best,
> Joe
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> ...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.
>>
>>
>> This is the point I was putting forward.
>>
>>
>> Edward Caissie
>> aka Cais.
>>
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