The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published a first public working draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2.
The primary reason for the update so soon after WCAG 2.1 relates to the addition of Success Criteria to support the needs of people with cognitive or learning disabilities. The WCAG 2.0 standard, while widely adopted, was often viewed as being week in providing support to people with cognitive disabilities due to relevant Success Criteria being placed in the rarely implemented Level AAA compliance. Support was also largely overlooked in the WCAG 2.1 dot release. As such, the addition of support to the standard is seen as a welcome update.
The WCAG 2.2 draft also features other Success Criteria to provide additional guidance for users of mobile devices and users of e-books.
Additional information regarding the differences between WCAG 2.1 and the WCAG 2.2 draft can be found in the W3C WCAG 2.2 blog post. Feedback on the draft can be provided to W3C via the WCAG 2.2 GitHub process or by
e-mail public-agwg-comments@w3.org.