For Review: WCAG-EM 2.0 — First Draft Note

Dear WAI Interest Group,

W3C WAI invites you to comment on the W3C Group Note Draft:
*W3C Accessibility Guidelines Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0 <https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag-em-2/>*


    Overview

WCAG-EM describes a methodology with a step-by-step process to evaluate how well digital products conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.

It provides technology-agnostic guidance to define the evaluation scope, explore the target product, select a representative sample set from products, evaluate the selected sample set, and report the evaluation findings. This procedure is suitable for use in different evaluation contexts, including self-assessment and third-party evaluation.

For an introduction to WCAG-EM, see WCAG-EM Overview <https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/conformance/wcag-em/>.


    Changes from Version 1

WCAG-EM 1 is specifically for testing websites and web pages. WCAG-EM 2 also applies to apps and other digital products.

For more information on the differences, see the WCAG-EM 2 Changelog (GitHub) <https://github.com/w3c/wai-wcag-em/?tab=readme-ov-file#changelog>.


    For Review

We particularly welcome your input on the following questions:

  * Are all digital products that evaluators commonly evaluate covered by this methodology, or are any explicitly excluded?
  * Does the terminology of 'sample set' and 'sample' match how evaluators use it in their evaluations?
  * Is this new version more useful for evaluators when they evaluate apps?


    Comments

To comment, please open a new issue in the wai-wcag-em GitHub repository. Create a separate GitHub issue for each topic, rather than commenting on multiple topics in a single issue.

If it's not feasible for you to use GitHub, email your comments to public-agwg-comments@w3.org Please put your comments in the body of the message, not as an attachment.


    Thanks

W3C thanks everyone who contributed to this document. See Editors at the top of the document and contributors in the Acknowledgements <https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag-em-2/#c-acknowledgements> section.

Regards,
Alastair Campbell and Rachael Bradley Montgomery, Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG WG) Co-Chairs
Kevin White, W3C Staff Contact for AG WG
Shawn Lawton Henry, Director, W3C Accessibility Initiative (WAI)



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Shawn Lawton Henry
Director, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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