Re: WCAG 3.0 First Public Working Draft Published

I could not have put this better. Thank you all who've worked with us for
years, those who've helped out in small ways here and there, and those
who've just joined our efforts!

We've a lot of work to do, but this makes for a pretty great milestone.

-Shawn

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 7:26 AM Jeanne Spellman <
jspellman@spellmanconsulting.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> 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> <shawn@w3.org>
> To: public-wai-announce@w3.org
> CC: Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org> <cooper@w3.org>, Alastair Campbell
> <acampbell@nomensa.com> <acampbell@nomensa.com>, Chuck Adams
> <charles.adams@oracle.com> <charles.adams@oracle.com>, Rachael Bradley
> Montgomery <rachael@accessiblecommunity.org>
> <rachael@accessiblecommunity.org>, Jeanne Spellman
> <jspellman@spellmanconsulting.com> <jspellman@spellmanconsulting.com>,
> Shawn Lauriat <lauriat@google.com> <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
>