Requirements for WCAG 3.0

W3C Group Draft Note

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This version:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/DNOTE-wcag-3.0-requirements-20241212/
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https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag-3.0-requirements/
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https://w3c.github.io/wcag3/requirements/
History:
https://www.w3.org/standards/history/wcag-3.0-requirements/
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(Nomensa)
(Library of Congress)
(Oracle)
(W3C)
(TetraLogical)
(Intel Corporation)
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Abstract

The Requirements for W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 documentation is the next phase of development of the next major upgrade to accessibility guidelines. WCAG 3.0 will be the successor to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2 series. The Silver Task Force of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group and the W3C Silver Community group have partnered to incubate the needs, requirements, and structure for the new accessibility guidance. To date, the group has:

  1. Researched accessibility guidance needs.
  2. Developed problem statements and opportunities to improve accessibility guidance.
  3. Received input from industry leaders for directions to proceed.
  4. Drafted these high-level requirements for the next phase of the project, the prototyping and public input.

Status of This Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at https://www.w3.org/TR/.

The Requirements for WCAG 3.0 is published as a joint effort of the Silver Task Force of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group and of the W3C Silver Community Group. It is a work in progress, and comments are welcome as Github Issues or by email to public-agwg-comments@w3.org.

This is the third phase of the Requirements after releasing the first public working draft of WCAG 3.0. Issues raised against the requirements were dealt with by the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group.

This document was published by the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group as a Group Draft Note using the Note track.

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This document is governed by the 03 November 2023 W3C Process Document.