From 2d3ac892a9ebd37b4b7b0561ff1fee2eb0c4f37d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shawn Lawton Henry Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:21:10 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Update index.md --- pages/standards-guidelines/wcag/index.md | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/pages/standards-guidelines/wcag/index.md b/pages/standards-guidelines/wcag/index.md index 5fe33ba08c4..a7685224ce4 100644 --- a/pages/standards-guidelines/wcag/index.md +++ b/pages/standards-guidelines/wcag/index.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ title: "WCAG 2 Overview" nav_title: "Web Content – WCAG 2" lang: en # Change "en" to the translated-language shortcode -last_updated: 2024-03-07 # Keep the date of the English version +last_updated: 2024-12-12 # Keep the date of the English version first_published: "July 2005" description: Introduces the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) international standard, including WCAG 2.0, WCAG 2.1, and WCAG 2.2. WCAG documents explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities. @@ -111,11 +111,13 @@ The following resources help you understand and implement WCAG, and improve acce ## WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 {#versions} -The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards are stable and referenceable when they are published as a 'W3C Recommendation' web standard. +The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards are referenceable when they are published as a 'W3C Recommendation' web standard. * [WCAG 2.0](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/) was published on 11 December 2008. -* [WCAG 2.1](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/) was published on 5 June 2018, and an update was published on 21 September 2023. The [WCAG 2 FAQ](/standards-guidelines/wcag/faq/) has information about the update. -* [WCAG 2.2](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/) was published on 5 October 2023. +* [WCAG 2.1](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/) was published on 5 June 2018, and updates were published on 21 September 2023 and 12 December 2024. +* [WCAG 2.2](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/) was published on 5 October 2023, and an update was published on 12 December 2024. + +For information on the updates, see the [WCAG 2 FAQ](/standards-guidelines/wcag/faq/). WCAG 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 are designed to be "backwards compatible", which means content that conforms to WCAG 2.2 also conforms to WCAG 2.1 and WCAG 2.0. If you want to meet all the versions, you can use the WCAG 2.2 resources and you don’t need to bother looking at earlier versions. @@ -140,7 +142,7 @@ The content of ISO/IEC 40500 is freely available from [www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20](htt Benefits of WCAG 2.0 as an ISO standard are summarized in [ISO in the FAQ](/standards-guidelines/wcag/faq/#iso). More information on W3C and the ISO process is in the [W3C PAS FAQ](https://www.w3.org/2010/04/pasfaq). -**W3C plans to submit WCAG 2.2 through the ISO process.** +**W3C submitted WCAG 2.2 to ISO.** It will likely be after June 2025 before the ISO process is complete. ## Who develops WCAG {#wg} From 5d637d28a1584c03f6dc3a5915cd0c03f628f0e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shawn Lawton Henry Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:41:03 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Update faq.md --- pages/standards-guidelines/wcag/faq.md | 33 ++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/pages/standards-guidelines/wcag/faq.md b/pages/standards-guidelines/wcag/faq.md index 1536ac347cc..948f7ec23e1 100644 --- a/pages/standards-guidelines/wcag/faq.md +++ b/pages/standards-guidelines/wcag/faq.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: "WCAG 2 FAQ" nav_title: "FAQ" lang: en -last_updated: 2023-10-05 +last_updated: 2024-12-12 first_published: "October 2006" description: Answers to some frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ footer: > The starting place for information about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is the [WCAG Overview](/standards-guidelines/wcag/). This page answers to some frequently asked questions (FAQ) about (WCAG. Let us know what other questions you have.
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