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

[Justin Tadlock]

After giving this some thought, I agree with Chip and Cais that we should
probably only allow the "accessibility-ready" tag on child themes if the
parent theme also has this tag.

One big reason for this is that any single parent theme update could break
accessibility for the child theme.  Then, we'd be in a position of having
to make sure the child theme keeps updated or possibly suspending the theme
(as with a recent discussion).

I really think any improvements like this should be passed back upstream.
 I honestly don't think most theme authors would mind getting some help on
making their theme better, especially if it's something simple enough that
a child theme could fix.  And, if it's not simple stuff, I think the theme
should simply be forked.


On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:53 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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