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COGA guidance subgroup call

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WCAG 3 October exercise

Exercise instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18H490Ls11P5YQHPIhdwf5zFfoM0EW4YjTwrcR0mukMA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.9ym6naegkv8f

Part of this exercise is to see if people understand the requirements.

Part of this is also to get people to think about whether they understand how to test if a particular site or app is meeting the requirement.

Gareth said sometimes there wasn't enough information to understand the reuquirements as currently written.

Charli As I go through it, I am trying to think about small companies as well as big companies.

LenB has found the exercise helpful, but often finds himself second-guessing his pass/fail judgments.

LenB I have spent a lot of time going through the assertions.

Charli A small business owner may not know if Wix or another content management system is using CSS, etc.

kirkwood Good point. The framing of what shoes are you putting on during this exercise.

Gareth I have an engineering background. I was looking to see if the wording serving a wider net than engineers, such as a person using a Wix templated website.

Gareth: When talking about setting a pointer to a default, we have to decide who our audience is.

julierawe We need to work on the balance of keeping the normative doc streamlined but have enough informative/supporting docs to help beginners understand it.

Charli Does WCAG 3 have any beginners working on drafting it?

Gareth: I read the technical information and think is this open to misinterpretation?

WCAG conformance discussion

AG is talking conformance models, and put together an overview deck: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18H490Ls11P5YQHPIhdwf5zFfoM0EW4YjTwrcR0mukMA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.9ym6naegkv8f

Minutes from last week's AG meeting: https://www.w3.org/2025/10/14-ag-minutes.html

Overview deck (correct link): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DlDxp8MCYXj3RWnFCCz13zsmM2fV4Wf8NbECKogdul8/edit?slide=id.p#slide=id.p

Look at slide 7. Each level says meet "all foundational requirements." The big question is how do we make sure groups don't get discriminated against?

Conformance discussion will continue at the next AG meeting on Tuesday, October 21st, at 11 am ET. Please join if you can, thanks!