The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) has updated the WCAG 3 working draft. It now includes initial Developing content for most of the requirements. These will evolve a great deal over the next few years. The draft also includes a proposed conformance model. The content of the working draft is not ready for use but it is ready for your comments!
The AGWG updates the WCAG 3 working draft every 6 months for public feedback. Public review and comment is an important part of creating the best possible standard. You can learn more about the draft by reading the WCAG 3 Introduction. The draft includes questions for public feedback but as co-chairs, we would particularly like feedback on the following:
- Are there user needs which are not covered? In other words, what requirements are missing?
- WCAG 3 is more granular and uses “applies when” and “except when” statements. Do you find WCAG 3 requirements easier to understand than WCAG 2.2 success criteria? What do you suggest to improve readability?
- We have introduced assertions. Would organizations you are associated with be comfortable stating that they completed a process such as a plain language review of their content, either in a public accessibility statement or an accessibility conformance report?
- Could you use the proposed conformance model? What are the positive and negative points?
To provide feedback, please open a new issue in the WCAG 3 GitHub repository. Create a separate GitHub issue for each topic, rather than commenting on multiple topics in a single issue. If you are unable to use GitHub, please email your comments to public-agwg-comments@w3.org (comment archive).