Re: For Review: WCAG 3.0 First Public Working Draft

Congratulations and a massive thanks to everyone who has worked so hard 
on getting to this important milestone!

Steve

On 21/01/2021 08:03, Shawn Henry wrote:
> 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 09:21:19 UTC