WCAG 3.0 First Public Working Draft Published

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of you who have worked so 
hard to get us today.

Please promote this among your social media.  Here is a link to the 
WAI-IG announcement, with all the links to the draft and to the 
announcements.  I also wrote a private blog with the list of all the 
questions we made as a group back in October.  There were too many to 
put in the official W3C announcements.

https://jspellman-77432.medium.com/an-insider-look-at-wcag-3-0-276e9b964a33

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Jeanne



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Subject:  For Review: WCAG 3.0 First Public Working Draft
Date:  Thu, 21 Jan 2021 02:03:18 -0600
From:  Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
To:  public-wai-announce@w3.org
CC:  Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>, Alastair Campbell 
<acampbell@nomensa.com>, Chuck Adams <charles.adams@oracle.com>, Rachael 
Bradley Montgomery <rachael@accessiblecommunity.org>, Jeanne Spellman 
<jspellman@spellmanconsulting.com>, Shawn Lauriat <lauriat@google.com>



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