FW: For Review: WCAG 3.0 First Public Working Draft

I’m sure many of you have seen announcements about WCAG 3.0. Please see below to make sure that you are aware of the timeline and are sending feedback to the correct place. 

Tzviya Siegman
Information Standards Principal
Wiley
201-748-6884
tsiegman@wiley.com 

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From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org> 
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Subject: For Review: WCAG 3.0 First Public Working Draft

Dear WAI Interest Group,

W3C WAI invites you to comment on the First Public Working Draft of WCAG 3.0:
 W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0
 https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag-3.0/


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. WCAG 3 has a significantly different approach than WCAG 2. It has a different name, structure, conformance model, and scope. The plan is for WCAG 3 to include most of the accessibility requirements (“success criteria”) from WCAG 2 and include additional accessibility requirements. The WCAG 3 development schedule goes into 2023.

This First Public Working Draft includes:
- proposed structure
- draft conformance model
- 5 draft example guidelines

*Please start by reading the*
      *WCAG 3 Introduction*
      https://www.w3.org/WAI/wcag3


That is the main page for up-to-date WCAG 3 information. For now, it introduces how WCAG 3 is structured, the draft conformance model, and how it relates to WCAG 2.

For review:
The main goal of this review is to get input on the structure and conformance model in this draft. Guidance for reviewers is in the blog post:
      WCAG 3 FPWD Published
      https://www.w3.org/blog/2021/01/wcag-3-fpwd/

There are also specific questions for reviewers throughout the WCAG 3 draft document.

We also welcome comments on ways that the Working Group can better support your review, feedback, or inclusion in the process of creating this standard.

Comments:
To comment, please open a new issue in the WCAG 3 (Silver) GitHub repository:
      https://github.com/w3c/silver/issues/new

If this is not feasible, send email to:
      public-silver@w3.org
Please send comments by *26 February 2021*.

Updates: In-progress updates to the document are available in the Editors' Draft at:
       https://w3c.github.io/silver/guidelines/


Share: We encourage you to share this information.
Here's tweet you can use: https://twitter.com/w3c_wai/status/1352161287275499520


Here's the *short link to the starting page to share*:
       w3.org/WAI/wcag3

Regards,
Alastair Campbell, Chuck Adams, Rachael Montgomery - AG Working Group Co-Chairs Jeanne Spellman, Shawn Lauriat - Silver Task Force Facilitators Michael Cooper - W3C Staff Contact for AG Working Group Judy Brewer - Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Shawn Lawton Henry - WAI Education and Outreach Coordinator

Received on Monday, 1 February 2021 18:45:46 UTC