Web Accessibility Initiative

We are pleased to announce that WCAG 2.2 is now an ISO standard: ISO/IEC 40500:2025

Learn more from:

- W3C press release 'W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 approved as ISO/IEC international standard' at https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2025/wcag22-iso-pas/

- 'ISO/IEC 40500, EAA, EN 301 549' section of the WCAG 2 Overview at https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/#iso

It is available free from 'ISO/IEC 40500:2025 - Information technology — W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2' at https://www.iso.org/standard/91029.html

W3C WAI invites you to comment on the updated W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 Working Draft. This in-progress draft has more guidelines, requirements, and assertions ready for review. There are some sections that are not yet updated.

For background, timeline, and up-to-date information, see WCAG 3 Introduction: https://www.w3.org/WAI/wcag3

For review questions and how to comment, see the section 'About this draft'.

WCAG 3 Working Draft: https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag-3.0/

#wcag3 #accessibility #a11y

WCAG 3 Draft for review:
An updated W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 Working Draft is available for review. For a summary of changes, new content for review, and how to comment, see the WCAG 3 Introduction section 'Status: In-progress drafts' at https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/wcag3-intro/#status-in-progress-drafts

(Note that WCAG 3 is years away from being complete. For information on the current Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2 standard, see the WCAG 2 Overview. https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/ )

W3C WAI invites you to review the updated Draft Note
Accessibility Maturity Model:
https://www.w3.org/TR/maturity-model/

It provides a framework to assess an organization's policies and procedures to deliver accessible products and services. It can be used to measure current capabilities, identify gaps, and plan improvements.

For review questions and how to comment, see the email announcing the Accessibility Maturity Model update:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-announce/2025JulSep/0003.html

Please send comments by 30 September 2025.

We've got a new draft resource for you:
Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping (ARRM)
https://www.w3.org/WAI/planning/arrm/

ARRM helps your team create more accessible digital products and services. ARRM provides an approach for defining roles, tasks, and responsibilities for meeting Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

We welcome your input on this developing resource. You can share input via email or GitHub — or by joining the ARRM Community Group.

Today we published the updated WCAG2ICT for WCAG 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2.

WCAG2ICT is Guidance on Applying Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).

WCAG2ICT has been a key resource for including WCAG in ICT accessibility regulation, legislation, and standards around the world. This update facilitates further adoption of WCAG 2.1 and WCAG 2.2 in non-web contexts.

To learn more, start from https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/non-web-ict/

Two more W3C accessibility presentations online:

1. Leading Inclusive Digital Transformation (8 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvy85FCb0RM&list=PLhDEeYUfW02QhGrDOHxLM9ZNZnQiLiFuZ&index=1

- introduces accessibility, W3C, WAI, WCAG
- explains that accessibility is essential for some and useful for all
- introduces a user-centered approach
- lists ways that high-level leaders can champion accessibility
- encourages making the digital world less disabling and more accessible

2. W3C WAI Update — What's in it for You (53 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0BzCcTpODo&list=PLhDEeYUfW02QhGrDOHxLM9ZNZnQiLiFuZ&index=2

'Advancing Digital Accessibility with W3C WAI' recording available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWOiKSLIn58&list=PLhDEeYUfW02QhGrDOHxLM9ZNZnQiLiFuZ&index=1
From this interactive keynote at AccessU 2025, you can learn about WAI resources to help promote that accessibility is about improving the user experiences of people with disabilities, and to support you in planning, managing, designing, developing, and training for digital accessibility. Q&A includes the WCAG 3 approach and timeline (years away). Find out how you can contribute to W3C accessibility work.

Tools for collaborative development of documents, code, and more need to be accessible to people with disabilities. Here to help with that is:

Collaboration Tools Accessibility User Requirements https://www.w3.org/TR/ctaur/

Today we published it as a W3C Group Note. We've taken to referring to it as CTAUR pronounced 'see-tower'.

For more accessibility user requirements, see Digital Accessibility User Requirements https://www.w3.org/WAI/research/user-requirements/

For #GAAD (Global Accessibility Awareness Day), @w3c@w3c.social Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) invites you to check out:

- Educational and Cultural Exchange on Digital Accessibility — Highlights from Hong Kong https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/educational-and-cultural-exchange-on-digital-accessibility-highlights-from-hong-kong/

- Translations of W3C WAI accessibility resources https://www.w3.org/WAI/translations/

The Brazilian Portuguese Authorized Translation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2. is now available : https://www.w3.org/Translations/WCAG22-pt-BR/

🌍 You can find other W3C WAI educational and technical resources translated into Brazilian Portuguese from: https://www.w3.org/WAI/translations/#pt-BR

Want to help with translations? Please see: https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/translating/

Thanks to all who contribute to translations of W3C WAI accessibility resources!

The French Authorized Translation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.2 – Règles pour l’accessibilité des contenus Web (WCAG) 2.2 – is now published at:
https://www.w3.org/Translations/WCAG22-fr/

🌍 You can find W3C WAI educational and technical resources in other languages from: https://www.w3.org/WAI/translations/

Want to help with translations? Please see: https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/translating/

Thanks to all who contribute to translations of W3C WAI accessibility resources!

W3C Accessibility Specialist Daniel Montalvo will be at the Inclusive Africa Conference 3–5 June 2025.

Daniel’s sessions are available free for remote participants:
- 12.10pm (EAT), 3 June: Global Implementation of Accessibility
- 2.40pm (EAT), 3 June: Roundtable on Developing Africa’s Digital Accessibility Standard

Registration: https://kutanaevents.com/events/inclusive_africa_conference

#DigitalAccessibility
#WAI
#WebStandards

A tradução autorizada das Diretrizes de Acessibilidade para Conteúdo Web (WCAG) 2.2 para português do Brasil já está disponível: https://www.w3.org/Translations/WCAG22-pt-BR/

🌍 Você pode encontrar outros recursos educacionais e técnicos da WAI do W3C traduzidos para o português do Brasil em: https://www.w3.org/WAI/translations/#pt-BR

Quer ajudar com traduções? Consulte: https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/translating/

Agradecemos a todos que contribuem para as traduções dos recursos de acessibilidade da WAI do W3C!

Une traduction française agréée des Règles pour l’accessibilité des contenus Web (WCAG) 2.2 est désormais disponible : https://www.w3.org/Translations/WCAG22-fr/

🌍 Retrouvez d’autres ressources pédagogiques et techniques de W3C WAI traduites en français à l’adresse https://www.w3.org/WAI/translations/#fr

Vous souhaitez contribuer aux traductions ? Rendez-vous sur https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/translating/

Merci à toutes les personnes qui participent aux traductions des ressources sur l’accessibilité de W3C WAI.

See our in-progress draft accessibility Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.2 to Mobile Applications (WCAG2Mobile). It describes how Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 principles, guidelines, and success criteria can be applied to mobile applications, including native mobile apps, mobile web apps, and hybrid apps using web components inside native mobile apps.

https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2mobile-22/

To comment on this draft via email or GitHub, see links in the 'Status of This Document' section.

You are invited to an information sharing session on Wednesday 14 May at 4:00 pm CT / 21:00 UTC:
Advancing Digital Accessibility with @w3c@w3c.social WAI
https://knowbility.org/programs/john-slatin-accessu-2025/advancing-digital-accessibility-with-w3c-wai

The session will be available via the @Knowbility YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/Reo_KG-1JG4
And the recording will be available afterwards.

Thanks to Knowbility for hosting this free online session along with AccessU!

We hope you'll join Shawn Henry, Kevin White, and WAI Interest Group Chair Ashley Abaragu on Wednesday.