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For Review: W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 First Working Draft

(2021-01-21)

W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 First Public Working Draft is published for review. W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3 has several differences from Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.

We encourage you to start by reading the WCAG 3 Introduction first to get important background on WCAG 3 development, review guidance, and timeline.

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. This WCAG 3 Draft proposes a different name, scope, structure, and draft conformance model.

We are seeking input from evaluators, developers, designers, project managers, policy makers, people with disabilities, and others — particularly on the structure and the draft conformance model. Additional review guidance is in the blog post WCAG 3 FPWD Published. Please submit comments by 26 February 2021.

Invitation: WAI-Tools Final Meeting, Online 26 January 2021

(2021-01-07)

You are invited to the WAI-Tools Final Open Meeting, Online 26 January 2021. The meeting is intended for web accessibility practitioners, evaluation and quality assurance tool vendors, website owners, European monitoring bodies, researchers, and users interested in large-scale monitoring of web accessibility. Agenda, logistics, and registration information is in the meeting page. This meeting is free, and registration is required.

For Review: XR Accessibility User Requirements (XAUR) Updated Draft

(2020-09-16)

An updated Working Draft of XR Accessibility User Requirements (XAUR) is now available for review. XAUR describes the needs of people with disabilities in virtual or immersive environments (XR). It includes requirements for XR to be accessible. XAUR is for designers and developers who are involved in creating XR experiences. It is also useful for anyone who wants to better understand XR accessibility. We would particularly like input on any user needs or requirements that are missing from this draft. For more information, see the XAUR review e-mail.

Invitation: WAI-Tools Online Meeting 22 September 2020

(2020-08-24)

You are invited to the WAI-Tools Online Open Meeting on 22 September 2020. The meeting is intended for web accessibility practitioners, evaluation and quality assurance tool vendors, website owners, European monitoring bodies, researchers, and users interested in large-scale monitoring of web accessibility. Agenda, logistics, and registration information is in the meeting page. This meeting is free, and registration is required.

For Wide Review: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Working Draft

(2020-08-11)

WCAG 2.2 Working Draft is ready wide review before finalizing WCAG 2.2. This version has 9 new “success criteria” (requirements) since WCAG 2.1. The new success criteria address user needs of people with cognitive or learning disabilities, users of mobile devices, and users of ebooks. We want to hear from users, authors, tool developers, policy makers, and others about benefits from the new proposed success criteria, as well as how achievable you feel it is to conform to the new success criteria. Additional information is in the blog post Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Draft for Review. Please submit comments by 18 September 2020.

For Review: Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities

(2020-07-17)

The Draft Note "Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities" is ready for review. This may be the final review before the document is published as a Working Group Note. We particularly request feedback on:

• Are any user needs or patterns missing or incorrect?
• Can any information be made easier to understand and implement?

Comments are welcome through 4 September 2020.

New Resource: Authoring Tool Accessibility Report Generator (keywords: CMS, ATAG, ...)

(2020-06-29)

The Accessibility Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has published the ATAG Report Tool. Authoring tools are software and services used to create web content – such as content management systems (CMS) and what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) HTML editors. W3C's Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) addresses making the authoring tools themselves accessible and helping authors create more accessible web content. Learn more from the ATAG Overview. The new ATAG Report Tool helps authoring tool vendors and evaluators provide information to project managers, procurers, and others who need to know how well potential authoring tools support accessibility.