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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:

  • Measurement: Pass/Fail, Scale, Points, Percentage
  • Critical errors
  • Scoring in Aggregate
  • Role of user and usability testing
  • Weighting by Success Criteria vs. setting a minimum score
  • Scoring Protocols

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.

  • Additional Content
  • Alternatives for Audio
  • Alternatives for Video
  • Assistive Technology Access
  • Augment Text
  • Avoid Interruptions
  • Avoid Movement
  • Captions
  • Clear Words
  • Color Contrast
  • Complimentary Information Conveyed
  • Consistent Paths and Interactions
  • Context of Interactions
  • Error Prevention
  • Give Users Time
  • In-context Navigation
  • Input Mechanisms
  • Interaction Customizations
  • Motor Control
  • Multi-part Interactions
  • Multiple Modalities
  • Multiple Ways
  • Name-based Interactions
  • Physical Reactions
  • Predictable Context
  • Structured Content
  • Switching Input Modalities
  • Text Alternatives
  • Text Rendering Customization
  • Use Technologies Correctly
  • Viewport Rendering Customization
  • Visual Contrast of Text

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

- Accessibility-supported - Issue Severity - Scoping - Test Types & Terminology - Equity