Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
The mission of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is to develop specifications to support making implementations of web technologies accessible for people with disabilities, and to develop and maintain implementation support materials.
Announcements
WCAG 3 conformance extended meetings:
The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, Silver Task Force, and Silver Community Group will conduct three 2-hour work sessions on Thursday, 29 April 2021. Details are in the meeting page.
Current Work
The Working Group maintains a comprehensive list of publications, which include:
- WCAG 2.1,
- Understanding WCAG 2.0,
- WCAG 2.0 Techniques
- Errata for WCAG 2.0, and
- Accessibility Guidelines 3.0 ("Silver").
The Project Plan details intended timeline and milestones for this work. A list of publications on the W3C Technical Reports page includes completed deliverables that are no longer worked on by the Working Group.
Task Forces
The AG WG uses task forces to focus work on specific projects. Task Forces are described on the related page.
How to Comment, Contribute, and Participate
The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group engages with stakeholders in a variety of ways. See the following resources for information on:
Meetings and Communication
The AG WG conducts its work using a variety of synchronous and asynchronous tools. The communication page provides details about:
- Teleconferences of the Working Group and its task forces (also see meeting minutes);
- Face to face meetings (also see face to face meeting pages);
- Email lists;
- WCAG 2.0 source repository and WCAG 2.1 source repository;
- Wiki;
- Web-Based Surveys (WBS);
- Issue Tracker;
- WCAG 2.0 source repository issue tracker and WCAG 2.1 source repository issue tracker.
These tools are used by participants of the Working Group. For ways non-participants can contribute, see How to contribute to the Working Group and file comments.
Administrative Information
Work of the AG WG is in accordance with the W3C Process. AG WG work is funded in part by the WAI Core 2015 Project. The work of this group does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the funders.
The chairs of the AG WG, responsible for overall leadership and management, are Chuck Adams, Alastair Campbell, and Rachael Montgomery. The staff contact, responsible for W3C Process and general support, is Michael Cooper. Administrative inquiries may be sent to [email protected].
The AG WG maintains the following operational resources:
W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent.