In reply to Morten Rand-Hendriksen.

While I agree that theme developers need to make sure their themes are accessible; accessibility is not just about a theme!

For example - a user with no website development experience could go the extra mile and choose an accessible theme, thinking their job is done after that point. But then... they're not filling in alt text or providing transcripts of audio files. I've seen it happen.

Even I still forget to fill out the alt text field sometimes, and I'm more aware than the average user about it. I've gone back and edited old images on my sites that don't have alt text, and I kick myself for forgetting it.

If anything, a guide within wordpress itself (they provide the alt text field in the media library, but not a reason to use it) would be a nice way to address the issue of awareness. This could be as simple as a dashboard widget with a link to a user-friendly guide on how to make your wordpress site accessible (the W3 guide is useful to developers, but the verbage gets lost on average users.. we could make accessibility more accessible).

Or how about a check and user prompt to fill in the alt text or provide a transcript within the media library if none exists on post/page insertion? A gentle reminder (or brief education) might be all that WP users need to start generating accessible content.

It starts with the theme developers, but I agree that wordpress admins also are responsible: they are generating content.