In reply to steven muncy.

I'm a big fan of making themes accessible. I believe it's a huge part of the future of Web design and would love to see most themes on the repo handle their end of it. This has been an area of great focus for me over the past few months.

However, as an admin of TRT, full compliance with our current accessibility guidelines is something I'd fight to **not** make a requirement.

Unfortunately, making a theme accessible can sometimes mean not respecting a designer's artistic vision. This is particularly an issue with color contrasts. Anything that would hinder design decisions like this is not something I would support. That's beyond the scope of what TRT's role is.

With all that said, we're a long ways from this being a realistic discussion. We're still dealing with basic issues. Not to mention, the majority of our reviewers wouldn't be able to review such themes. Requiring accessibility-ready themes would be such a huge barrier to entry for new theme authors that it'd be detrimental to the system.