Work is largely completed for making the accessibility-ready tag conditional in the theme directory, as proposed in meta trac ticket #8427. There’s a little bit more work to be done to set up the changes, which is going to briefly delay implementing the updates to what themes will be listed in the tag.
The important details for theme authors and reviewers to know:
With this change, no themes will be delisted from the directory because they have not yet met the requirements for the accessibility-ready tag. Adding the accessibility-ready tag will not delay getting your theme approved, and
