In reply to Sarah Gooding.

I agree with movement now (and we're doing that); but why does that movement have to be aggressive? What would it help? Right now, I could not teach someone how to implement the accessibility guidelines, nor could I teach a reviewer how to review against them. I really don't see how universally frustrating developers and reviewers is going to help the cause.

Joe's doing a great job of getting the Guidelines implemented, but we're still very much in the alpha stage. And as far as Theme-Trac is concerned, the workflow is entirely manual. Trying to make it required right now would be like taking a bleeding-edge core Plugin, and forcing it onto everyone's production servers.

We're trying to get there, but we have to start somewhere. Most designers - and especially, most (Theme) developers - aren't accessibility experts. An oversight? Sure. But we can't undo decades of accessibility education negligence overnight.