Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 First Public Working Draft has been published – have your say!

It was in 2008, Web Accessibility Initiative Group of W3C has announced Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 as a candid recommendation. Since then, there has beena lot of of improvements and changes in technologies.

For more than a year now, Accessibility Guidelines Working Group have been working hard to introduce extended version of WCAG 2.0; as part of this effort, task forces have formed to work on needs of mobile, cognitive and low vision users.

Yesterday, Working Group has published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 First Public Working Draft to see feedback from users across the world.

There are 28 new success criterias in WCAG 2.1; in which 3 have been formally approved by the working group; others are in proposed states. Three new success criterias that got accepted are:

• Resize content
• Graphics Contrast
• Interruptions (minimum)

For this publication, Accessibility Working Group of W3C seeks feedback on following questions:

• Do the new and proposed Success Criteria address current user needs for web content accessibility?
• Does conformance to the new and proposed Success Criteria seem achievable and testable?
• How well do the new and proposed Success Criteria fit with the existing Success Criteria from WCAG 2.0?
• How completely does the set of new and proposed Success Criteria address current user needs, particularly for users of touch- and small-screen mobile devices, users with low vision, or users with cognitive or learning disabilities?
• Is the impact of WCAG 2.1 on policies that reference WCAG 2.0 understandable and not disruptive?

So have your say and contribute towards digital more inclusive!