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WCAG3 Project Plan

This wiki provides project planning milestones for the W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0.

Documents

All documentation is organized the same way:
  1. Projects
    • Foundational Work - basic topics: requirements, structure, and conformance
    • Scoring - measurement, critical errors, weighting
    • Content Creation - migrating WCAG 2 content and writing new guidelines
    • Guidelines - placeholder groupings of WCAG 2.1 success criteria for planning purposes.
  2. Projects are divided into milestones and organized by stage in the process.
    • "Milestones" are a selection of topics that need to be completed in a specific order.
    • Milestones provide a way to organize our work but are not permanent. Milestones may be added, closed, reorganized, or renamed when needed.
  3. Each Milestone has an associated wiki page, irc channel or Topic name, milestone label in github to group issues, and row on the schedule. These should all have the same name.

Foundational Work

Foundational Work Github Project - Information pages for each of the following milestones:

Scoring

Scoring Github Project - Information pages for each of the following milestones:

Content Creation and Migration

Content Creation and Migration Github Project - Information pages for each of the following milestones:

Guidelines

Guidelines Github Project - Information pages for each of the following milestones: Note that these are placeholder guidelines. They were developed by the Silver Task Force in 2018 based on common user needs of WCAG 2.1 success criteria. They have not been approved or finalized. They are included for project planning purposes.

  • Aid navigation
  • Audio and video alternatives
  • Clear language
  • Clear purpose
  • Color and contrast
  • Consistent design
  • Content order
  • Control and focus appearance
  • Control semantics
  • Error notification
  • Error prevention
  • Flexible views
  • Harm from motion
  • Keyboard support
  • Mobile and pointer support
  • Non-visual alternatives
  • Prevent harm
  • Process cognitive load
  • Provide help
  • Structured content
  • Text appearance and semantics
  • Timing and interruptions
  • User control

Subgroups

WCAG 3 subgroups are small and temporary groups within the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG), which are set up to work on proposals for specific topics or issues. Each subgroup has 4 to 6 members, including a facilitator, and will work for 8 weeks to come up with a proposal for AGWG. For details, read the subgroup handbook.

Current Subgroups

Upcoming Subgroups

Previous Subgroups