Re: Action: Review Pre-CFC Section 3 Conformance before end of day August 30th

Hi folks
This seems very important. I am going away for a few days and will not be
able to give it the full review it deserves. Also Coga is not meeting for
two weeks (we are on holiday) so it will hard to get people to look at it
quickly. Please can we have at least a week  after COGA is back post
holiday to review it?

However it does seem that our issues are not properly addressed. This
includes:
  http://github.com/w3c/wcag3/issues/653
http://github.com/w3c/wcag3/issues/654

For example, we wrote in the first issue (653):  A lot of assertions are
very important. They are processes, but still essential to the user. The
way the terms are laid out make them look less important rather than
non-process requirements.

We propose that Assertions can be core or supplemental depending on whether
they are essential to the user. If users can not independently use the
content without this Assertion because of their disability, then the
assertion should be core.

Supplemental assertions can be accessibility practices that improve the
usability for people with disabilities.

For example, provisions can be labeled as a Core assertion or as a
Supplemental Assertion.


On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 3:16 AM Bradley Montgomery, Rachael L <
rmontgomery@loc.gov> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thank you for a productive conversation yesterday.
>
> Based on it, this is a pre-CFC for updates to WCAG 3 Section 3.
> Conformance <https://w3c.github.io/wcag3/guidelines/#conformance>  (Change
> History <https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/pull/826/changes>). We (chairs and
> staff) have done our best to incorporate your feedback from the survey and
> discussion yesterday into this.
>
> Please review the PR and email comments back to the group by end of day
> Sunday, August 30th.
>
> This PR does not include the proposed Section 4.
>
> Tomorrow, we will send out a second pre-CFC for Section 4 along with a
> proposed update to the WCAG 3 Explainer containing an alternative to the
> proposed tiers in section 4. That pre-CFC will also close at the end of the
> day Sunday, August 30th.
>
> Please reserve some time tomorrow, Friday or over the weekend to review
> these two proposals. We hope to start a CFC on August 31st for WCAG 3
> publication with the content that reaches consensus.  We would appreciate
> any remaining feedback on these updates *before* we start the actual CFC.
> It is more difficult to make changes during the formal CFC process.
>
> *Timeline (subject to change based on feedback)*:
>
>    - *August 27-30th*:  Pre-CFC's for WCAG 3 sections on conformance and
>    progress towards/beyond conformance as well as the updated explainer.
>    - *August 31-September 3rd*: CFC for WCAG 3 update and Explainer
>    - *September 8th* - Publication
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Rachael
>
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