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Advancing Digital Accessibility with W3C WAI — keynote recording available (2025-Jul-24)

Shawn Lawton Henry (Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)) and Kevin White (Senior Principal Accessibility Specialist) led an interactive session at the AccessU 2025 training conference. 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. The Q&A includes the WCAG 3 approach and timeline (years away). Find out how you can contribute to W3C accessibility work. See the recording of Advancing Digital Accessibility with W3C WAI.

DPUB-ARIA and DPUB-AAM are now Web Standards (W3C Recommendations) (2025-Jun-12)

Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.1 (DPUB-ARIA) and Digital Publishing Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 (DPUB-AAM) are now web standards (W3C Recommendations). DPUB-ARIA defines a set of ARIA roles to help assistive technology users navigate structural divisions of long-form digital documents, such as eBooks. DPUB-AAM defines how user agents (such as eBook readers) map the DPUB-ARIA markup to platform accessibility APIs. For an introduction to WAI-ARIA, see WAI-ARIA Overview.

For Review: Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.2 to Mobile Applications (WCAG2Mobile) — First Draft Note (2025-May-06)

Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.2 to Mobile Applications is available as a first Draft Note. WCAG2Mobile 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. We welcome your comments on the direction and approach of this in-progress resource. To comment via email or GitHub, see links in the ‘Status of This Document’ section.

WCAG 2.1 published with minor technical fixes (2025-May-06)

W3C published an update that addresses minor technical issues in the December 2024 publication of WCAG 2.1. The 6 May 2025 publication is Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1.

The changes are listed in the Change Log section of WCAG 2.1.

WCAG 2.2 in Brazilian Portuguese – Authorized Translation Published (2025-Mar-27)

Diretrizes de Acessibilidade para Conteúdo Web (WCAG) 2.2, the Brazilian Portuguese Authorized Translation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 (WCAG), is now available. This translation followed the W3C Authorized Translations process.

Other translations of WAI resources are listed in All WAI Translations.

WAI thanks all who contribute to translations, and encourages translations of W3C accessibility standards and resources in all languages. If you might be interested in translating resources, see Translating WAI Resources.

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