2026 is upon us and the work of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) continues…
WCAG3 – 4 MORE YEARS?
From reading the draft minutes for the AGWG meeting 13th January 2026, there is skepticism about the working groups ability to get WCAG3 to Candidate Recommendation status (CR) within 4 years
CR does not mean that WCAG3 is finished
Timeline concerns me more. To be able to get to Candidate Rec within 4 years, I’d sign up for that but I don’t buy it. Most of work is still ahead of us. So many edge cases and exceptions to write. I don’t see how this will be done in the timeline proposed and there’s barely a timeline.
If the WCAG3 timeline is 4 years to W3C Candidate Recommendation
A Candidate Recommendation is a document that satisfies the technical requirements of the Working Group that produced it and their dependencies, and has already received wide review. W3C publishes a Candidate Recommendation to
- signal to the wider community that it is time to do a final review
- gather implementation experience
So in 2030.
In the year 2031…
Is a Candidate Recommendation endorsed by the W3C?
In 2030 WCAG3 will be at the stage before becoming a W3C Recommendation. I expect it to be a further year or so for it to become a fully fledged W3C Recommendation…
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