In reply to Morten Rand-Hendriksen.

If there's one thing I've learned over the years when making requirements for the theme directory, it's knowing how well a new guideline will go over with theme authors. I can flat out tell you that requiring all themes to meet the accessibility guidelines at this time will be detrimental to the entire process. We're simply not there yet. I wish we were, but we aren't.

You and others passionate about accessibility could meet the TRT halfway. Many of us are not open to making the guidelines a full-on requirement at the moment, but I'm sure we'd be open to promoting these types of themes in some way. We'd probably be open to requiring certain aspects of the guidelines (e.g., theme must style the .screen-reader-text class). How about some accessibility classes via #themereview on Slack (I'd love to attend)? How about a weekly accessibility tutorial on the Make Themes blog?