Gauging interest in writing WCAG 3 understand docs

Hi all,

I hope everyone is doing well and hopefully has some downtime coming as we approach the new year!

I am reaching out to gauge your interest in the possibility of helping to write the understanding documentation for WCAG 3. The guidelines themselves are still actively being worked on and there is still a long way to go before they become a recommendation, but an idea was floated about trying to get ahead of things and start writing at least the basics of the understanding documentation while those guidelines are still being refined. Writing the understanding docs is going to be a very large task, and the sooner we start, the better off we will be to be able to launch those docs as soon as possible after the guidelines themselves.

This idea has not been brought to the chairs of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) yet, so it is just that - an idea. Before bringing the idea to the chairs, we thought it would be a good idea to gauge whether or not we would have enough participants to even tackle this writing work.

One of the benefits of doing the work through this community group is that we could have participation beyond member organizations that participate in the working group, but we would still be working closely with AGWG or perhaps a task force within that working group.

If you are interested, could you please respond to let us know? This work would not begin until probably mid-2026, so keep that in mind when responding.

Thanks in advance!

Brian



Brian Elton
Practice Manager, Training
W3C Advisory Committee Representative
W3C Advancing Accessibility Resources Community Group Co-chair

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