COGA/WCAG 3: Your GitHub participation requested by end of day Monday, May 26th

Hi, COGA folks. At today's subgroup meeting, John K., Tiffany, Gareth and I
discussed the latest draft requirements for AG's charter renewal. I tried
to scribe, but the minutes <https://www.w3.org/2025/05/22-coga-minutes.html>
are pretty sparse—apologies for that.


I am detailing below two requirements for how AG will approach WCAG
3—regarding user agents and 3rd party content. Our subgroup is concerned
about these draft  requirements, and we encourage COGA members to
participate in the GitHub thread.


   - *Your input:* Please go to this GitHub thread
   <https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/306> and sign in (in the upper
   right corner) so you can add your thumbs-up or thumbs-down to the specific
   comments that are hyperlinked below.
   - *Deadline: *End of day this Monday, May 26th.

*User agents*

*AG's draft requirement:* WCAG 3 will improve the ability to scale
conformance by including methods that allow authors to pass when:

   - User agents* support the requirement, and
   - The author does not prevent user agent support.

*Our subgroup's concern:* This is such a low bar and reinforces the status
quo. People can keep making inaccessible content, but as long as that
content can be transformed by a user agent, then the author is off the
hook? What about users who have no idea there is a user agent that can
transform the content for them?

*Your GitHub participation requested:*


   - Draft requirement
   <https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/306#discussioncomment-13052063>
    👎
   - Alternate wording
   <https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/306#discussioncomment-13208596>
    👎
   - Julie comment
   <https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/306#discussioncomment-13236783>
    👍


*3rd party content*

*AG's draft requirement:* In order to address the challenge of 3rd party
content, AG will:

   - include methods for testing and applying requirements for authoring
   tools to address conformance, and
   - include a section on 3rd party content with an informative note on
   possible ways regulation can adopt WCAG 3.


*Our subgroup's concern: *It's not clear whether/how WCAG 3 will encourage
authors to take steps to improve the accessibility of 3rd party content.

*Your GitHub participation requested:*


   - Draft requirement
   <https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/306#discussioncomment-13052067>
    👎
   - Alternate wording
   <https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/306#discussioncomment-13208673>
    👎
   - Julie comment
   <https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/306#discussioncomment-13236846>
    👍

Thanks, and hope everyone has a good weekend,
Julie



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