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The primary purpose of the Proposed Recommendation is to collect feedback from the Advisory Committee. A history of changes to WCAG 2.2 is available in the appendix. The Working Group has completed work on the implementation report and no items at risk were removed from this version. Two previous Candidate Recommendations were published on 25 January 2023 and 6 September 2022, which resulted in normative changes due to implementation experience. WCAG 2.2 was published as a Candidate Recommendation on. This is a Proposed Recommendation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2. Publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found This section describes the status of thisĭocument at the time of its publication. The W3C also encourages use of the most current version of WCAG when developing or updating Web accessibility policies. While WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1 remain W3C Recommendations, the W3C advises the use of WCAG 2.2 to maximize future applicability of accessibility efforts. The publication of WCAG 2.2 does not deprecate or supersede WCAG 2.0 or WCAG 2.1. The WG intends that for policies requiring conformance to WCAG 2.0 or WCAG 2.1, WCAG 2.2 can provide an alternate means of conformance. Content that conforms to WCAG 2.2 also conforms to WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1. WCAG 2.2 extends Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1, which was published as a W3C Recommendation June 2018. See Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview for an introduction and links to WCAG technical and educational material. Guidance about satisfying the success criteria in specific technologies, as well as general information about interpreting the success criteria, is provided in separate documents. WCAG 2.2 success criteria are written as testable statements that are not technology-specific. Following these guidelines will also often make Web content more usable to users in general. These guidelines address accessibility of web content on desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. Following these guidelines will make content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including accommodations for blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, and combinations of these, and some accommodation for learning disabilities and cognitive limitations but will not address every user need for people with these disabilities. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible.

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