First Public Working Draft: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 has been published as a First Public Working Draft. This will be the first update to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines since WCAG 2.0. Sites that conform to WCAG 2.1 will also conform to WCAG 2.0, which means they meet the requirements of any policies that reference WCAG 2.0, while also better meeting the needs of users on the current Web. This first draft includes 28 new Success Criteria, three of which have been formally accepted by the Working Group and the remainder included as proposals to provide an opportunity for early feedback. Public feedback will be important to next steps on these proposals.

Further information is available in the blog post: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 First Public Working Draft.

Please comment by filing GitHub issues in the WCAG 2.1 repository or, if this is not feasible, by email to public-agwg-comments@w3.org, by 31 March 2017. Read about the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).