We’re gradually working the kinks out of the process. There was an oversight in the automated process that added the accessibility-ready keyword to themes, so that only new themes were automatically getting the keyword, and not updated themes that added it. That’s been fixed, which will improve our ability to note themes that need to go through the review process.
There’s a lot of support for the process, and the theme review team is invested in making this work, but I could use some backup in actually doing the reviews. Even if you don’t have the accessibility background, let me know if you’re interested: I’m happy to provide training to make sure you’ve got the knowledge it takes to do this review.