LAST WEEK IN WAI #3 – HTML Accessibility

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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 yearsCR does not mean that WCAG3 is finishedWilco said: 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 RecommendationA 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 toSo in 2030.In the year 2031…Is a Candidate Recommendatio…