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Feb 4, 2011 · WCAG 2.2 was published as a “W3C Recommendation” web standard on 5 October 2023. Changes from WCAG 2.1 to WCAG 2.2. WCAG 2.2 provides 9 additional success criteria since WCAG 2.1. They are introduced on this page. The 2.0 and 2.1 success criteria are essentially the same in 2.2, with one exception: 4.1.1 Parsing is obsolete and removed from ...
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While WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1 remain W3C Recommendations, the W3C advises the use of WCAG 2.2 to maximize future applicability of accessibility efforts. The W3C also encourages use of the most current version of WCAG when developing or updating Web accessibility policies.
- And Why Is Success Criteria 4.1.1 Parsing Obsolete?
- T Was Updated WCAG 2.1 in September 2023?
- What Was Updated in WCAG 2 For Internationalization?
- T Is Different in WCAG 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2?
- T About WCAG 3.0? What About “Silver”?
- How Can I Get Updates?
- Does WCAG 2 Apply to Documents and Non-Web Software?
- Where Should I Start?
- What Are The Different WCAG 2 Documents?
- ISO/IEC 40500 The Same as WCAG 2.0?
Success criteria 4.1.1 Parsing is obsolete. WCAG 2.2 indicates it as 4.1.1 Parsing (Obsolete and removed), along with a note. WCAG 2.1 and WCAG 2.0 now include this note from a conformance perspective: That note is in: 1. updated WCAG 2.1 that includes new notes under 4.1.1 Parsing and incorporates errata listed in the WCAG 2.1 changelog 2. WCAG 2....
WCAG 2.1:On 21 September, we published an update to WCAG 2.1. The update: 1. Adds informative notes to success criteria 4.1.1 Parsing. More information is above in Why is success criteria 4.1.1 Parsing obsolete. 2. Incorporates existing errata that are mostly minor wording corrections. The changes are listed in the WCAG 2.1 changelog. You can link ...
Updates to WCAG documents will better support accessibility in different languages. In October 2023, we added Notes to WCAG 2.2 to clarify that differences in languages do not impact conformance: 1. 1.4.8 Visual Presentation, AAA 2. 1.4.13 Text Spacing, AA We are updating Understanding WCAG 2.2 documents to address internationalization consideratio...
See: 1. WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 section of WCAG 2 Overview 2. What’s New in WCAG 2.1 3. What’s New in WCAG 2.2 The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG WG) will probably not do another version of WCAG 2, that is, not do WCAG 2.3. AG WG is working on WCAG 3.0.
WCAG 3.0 is the result of the project previously temporarily referred to as “Silver”. Please see important up-to-date information in the WCAG 3 Introduction page.
We will announce when more information is available on WCAG 2.2 and WCAG 3.0. To get announcements of updated drafts for review in e-mail, tweets, and RSS, see Get WAI News.
For an introduction to “Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.2 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT)”, see the WCAG2ICT Overview.
For introductory resources, see Accessibility Fundamentals Overview. If you want a really short introduction to 3 web accessibility issues (alternative text for images, keyboard input, and transcripts), see Examples of Web Accessibility. To learn about web accessibility principles and guidelines, see Accessibility Principles. To learn about WCAG 2 ...
To learn how the different WCAG 2 technical documents are related and linked, see The WCAG 2 Documents. Here’s a little more perspective on the different technical documents. When web content and web software developers were using WCAG 1.0, they had many questions on how to implement it, how to evaluate for it, and the reasons behind its requiremen...
Yes. WCAG 2.0 is approved as an ISO standard: ISO/IEC 40500:2012. ISO/IEC 40500 is exactly the same as the original Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The content of ISO/IEC 40500 is freely available from www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20; it is available for purchase from the ISO catalogue . For sup...
- WCAG 2.2 is expected to be the last version of WCAG 2.X. From this point forward, the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will focus their attention on WCAG 3.0.
- WCAG 2.2 focuses on making navigation and interaction accessible. All of the new criteria in WCAG 2.2 address accessibility issues that affect how people interact with content.
- WCAG 2.2 is the first version of WCAG 2 that is not fully backward compatible. WCAG 2.2 removes success criterion (SC) 4.1.1, “Parsing,” which requires content that uses markup languages to have complete start and end tags, to next elements appropriately, and to follow other best practices of parsing.
- Content creators should start using WCAG 2.2 immediately. As of this month, WCAG 2.2 is an official recommendation. It’s very likely that digital accessibility laws will use WCAG 2.2 as a framework in the near future, and the new criteria benefit the end user — outside of strict compliance considerations, there’s no reason to use an earlier version of WCAG.
Oct 6, 2023 · The W3C has published the latest version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2), which adds nine success criteria and removes the Parsing criteria which has been declared obsolete.
4 days ago · The WCAG 2.0 Requirements document provides details about conformance that needs to be met for WCAG 2.x releases. However WCAG 2.x releases need to provide conformance details that indicate the conformance relationship between them, and existing WCAG 2.0 conformance.
Dec 11, 2008 · This page introduces the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) international standard, including WCAG 2.0, WCAG 2.1, and WCAG 2.2. WCAG documents explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.
