On January 21, 2021, the World Wide Web Consortium
("W3C") released the First Public Working Draft of its
new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ("WCAG"), which
it has named WCAG
3.0. The release of the First Public Working Draft is only the
first step in a long process towards finalizing new WCAG compliance
criteria. The W3C will accept comments on the First Public Working
Draft up until February 26, 2021. It is reported that a final draft
will not be completed until 2023.
How does this draft change the current standards of WCAG
compliance?
WCAG 2.X Series
The WCAG is a set of recommendations that businesses can use to
make their web content accessible for people with disabilities.
WCAG 2.0 was published in 2008, with
version 2.1 becoming a W3C recommendation in 2018, and a
working draft of WCAG
2.2 released in August 2020 (note that a final draft of WCAG
2.2 is likely to be published in the summer of 2021). All versions
of WCAG 2.X follow the same A, AA
