FW: [External] : For Review: WCAG 3.0 First Public Working Draft

Dear AGWG members,

In case you missed from the public announcements, the First Public Working Draft of WCAG 3.0 has been published and announced.  I have included the announcing email in this forward (below).

Regards,
Charles Adams

-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org> 
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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>
Subject: [External] : 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 Thursday, 21 January 2021 15:17:15 UTC