Potential Guidelines in Silver

This page is intended to store ideas for guidelines we would like to see included in Silver. Some of these were proposed for earlier versions of WCAG but were deferred; others may be specific to Silver.

See also Potential Accessibility Guidelines from the main Accessibility Guidelines Working Group.

Including more videos and illustrations in the Guidelines 2022/4/1
Enable APIs proposal from COGA
Use Clear Words
Clear non-text content: Symbols, Maps, Icons, Graphics, Charts & Sound
- Provide pictures or tables that help the user understand the content
- Provide words and numeric symbols for numbers. Explain numeric concepts in simple words. For example, if you want to say 90%, do not explain what a percent is, say "most people (90%)". Be aware that other cultures may have a different meaning for symbols.
- Rubric example:
  - Provide alternatives or explanations for symbols and icons. See the guideline on alternative text for icons.
  - Text alternatives or explanations are available for symbols and icons
  - Some icons or symbols do not have text alternatives but content is understandable
  - Symbols and icons do not have text alternatives or explanations
Provide words and numeric symbols for numbers. Explain numeric concepts in simple words. For example, if you want to say 90%, do not explain what a percent is, say "most people (90%)".
Accessibility Statements. Ted Drake (Intuit) did a presentation on Accessibility Statements at CSUN 2019. EOWG has a new Accessibility Statement generator.
Virtual Reality and Accessibility References from the APA Research Questions Task Force
Personalization Semantics - see announcing Personalization Semantics FPWD
Graphics and MathML
FAST checklist is the Framework for Accessibility in the Specification of Technologies (FAST) prepared by the Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group. The goal of FAST is to describe the features that web technologies should provide to ensure it is possible to create content that is accessible to users with disabilities. The full framework references an analysis of user requirements, describes how technologies, content authoring, and user agents work together to meet these needs, and provides comprehensive guidance to technology developers.
AR/VR requirements, especially - but not limited to - the perspective of disability disorders?
Possible W3C work on Timed Text 3D Captions, and dynamic annotated video (danmaku)