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Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0
W3C WAI invites you to comment on the First Public Working Draft of WCAG 3.0:
W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0
https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag-3.0/
WCAG 3 is intended to be easier to understand and more flexible than WCAG 2. The flexibility is to address different types of web content, apps, and tools -- as well as organizations and people with disabilities. WCAG 3 has a significantly different approach than WCAG 2. It has a different name, structure, conformance model, and scope. The plan is for WCAG 3 to include most of the accessibility requirements (“success criteria”) from WCAG 2 and include additional accessibility requirements. The WCAG 3 development schedule goes into 2023.
This First Public Working Draft includes:
- proposed structure
- draft conformance model
- 5 draft example guidelines
*Please start by reading the*
*WCAG 3 Introduction*
https://www.w3.org/WAI/wcag3
That is the main page for up-to-date WCAG 3 information. For now, it introduces how WCAG 3 is structured, the draft conformance model, and how it relates to WCAG 2.
For review:
The main goal of this review is to get input on the structure and conformance model in this draft. Guidance for reviewers is in the blog post:
WCAG 3 FPWD Published
https://www.w3.org/blog/2021/01/wcag-3-fpwd/
There are also specific questions for reviewers throughout the WCAG 3 draft document.
We also welcome comments on ways that the Working Group can better support your review, feedback, or inclusion in the process of creating this standard.
Comments:
To comment, please open a new issue in the WCAG 3 (Silver) GitHub repository:
https://github.com/w3c/silver/issues/new
If this is not feasible, send email to:
public-silver@w3.org
Please send comments by *26 February 2021*.