Changelog for W3C Accessibility Standards Overview
7 March 2024
- In the “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2” section: replaced “WCAG 2.1 at a Glance” with “WCAG 2 at a Glance”.
29 February 2024
- In the “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2” section:
- updated the link to “How to Meet WCAG 2” to target the WCAG 2.2 version:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/quickref/
. - reordered the “WCAG 2.x Standard” list items to start with WCAG 2.2.
- updated the link to “How to Meet WCAG 2” to target the WCAG 2.2 version:
- In the “Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG)” section: updated a link to target the most recent WAI-ARIA 1.2 standard.
15 January 2024
- In the “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2” section:
- added a link to the “WCAG 2.2 Standard”
- removed “Working Draft” from “What’s New in WCAG 2.2” link text.
30 June 2022
- Renamed “Personalization” section into “WAI-Adapt” and extensively updated this section.
2 February 2022
- In the “Evaluation” section: added a reference to the WCAG 2 Test Rules.
30 April 2021
- In the frontmatter at the top, add
changelog: /standards-guidelines/changelog/
between ref and layout:
ref: /standards-guidelines/ # Do not change this
changelog: /standards-guidelines/changelog/
layout: default
- In the frontmatter, under
footer: >
:- Update the date.
- Add
CHANGELOG.
after the date. Leave it in all capital letters and do not translate it.
<p><strong>Date:</strong> Updated 30 April 2021. CHANGELOG.</p>
6 January 2021
Significant: Added links to What’s New in WCAG 2.2 and WCAG 3 Introduction.
- Add “2” with WCAG:
- Change “### Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) {#wcag}” to:
### Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2 {#wcag2}
- Change “WCAG info:” to:
WCAG 2 info:
- Change “### Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) {#wcag}” to:
- Add links under WCAG info:
- Before
- [WCAG 2.0 Standard](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/)
add:- [
[WCAG 2 Translations]
](/standards-guidelines/wcag/translations/)
- On the same line with
- [WCAG 2.1 Standard](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/)
add:, [
[What’s New in WCAG 2.1]
](/standards-guidelines/wcag/new-in-21/)
- Add a new line at the end:
- [
[What's New in WCAG 2.2 Working Draft]
](/standards-guidelines/wcag/new-in-22/)
- Check this matches the published version of the list. Here’s the full code block:
- [WCAG Overview](/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/)
- [
[WCAG 2.1 at a Glance]
](/standards-guidelines/wcag/glance/)
- [How to Meet WCAG 2 (Quick Reference)](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/quickref/)
- [
[WCAG 2 Translations]
](/standards-guidelines/wcag/translations/)
- [WCAG 2.0 Standard](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/)
- [WCAG 2.1 Standard](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/), [
[What’s New in WCAG 2.1]
](/standards-guidelines/wcag/new-in-21/)
- [
[What's New in WCAG 2.2 Working Draft]
](/standards-guidelines/wcag/new-in-22/)
- Before
- Before “## Technical Specifications”, add:
### W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3 Working Draft {#wcag3}
WCAG 3 is an early draft that is intended to become a W3C Standard. WCAG 3 applies to web content, apps, tools, publishing, and emerging technologies on the web.
WCAG 3 info:
* [
[WCAG 3 Introduction]
](/standards-guidelines/wcag/wcag3-intro/)
Note that WCAG 3 = “W3C Accessibility Guidelines” (whereas WCAG 2 = Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).
11 September 2019 Significant
Significant: Added links to Pronunciation Overview.
- Before “## Other Areas of W3C WAI work”, add:
### Pronunciation
[
[Pronunciation Overview]
](/pronunciation/) — Pronunciation is about screen readers and other text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis pronouncing content properly.
17 July 2019
- Under “## Additional Information {#moreinfo}”, in first item, change URI link to
https://www.w3.org/TR/?tag=accessibility
:
- [List of all W3C accessibility-related Standards ("W3C Recommendations") and Working Group Notes](https://www.w3.org/TR/?tag=accessibility)