2025 update for WCAG-EM

This repo contains drafts and explorations of a potential 2025 update of the 2014 WCAG-EM.

Setup

Start a web server from the top-level repository folder and open index.html

python3 -m http.server 8000 & sleep 2 && open http://localhost:8000

Changelog

Big picture

• Made methodology more widely applicable, by making it less specific, most notably by introducing the terms “digital products” (to refer to websites, apps, kiosks, documents) and “samples” (to refer to items selected for evaluation, like web pages, screens, pages, views).
• Removed all instances of WCAG 2.0 to be either WCAG 2 (where possible) or WCAG 2.2, so that it applies to the latest of WCAG 2.
• Simplified language where possible.

All changes

• 8 July 2025: simplify introduction, use active verbs, a list for factors and 'target audience' instead of 'purpose', move terms and background reading to end of document (b3ceab3).
• 7 July 2025: replace “web pages” mostly with “samples”, websites mostly with “digital products”, and remove “web” from “web technologies” and “web accessibility”(1ab9fea); define “samples”, “digital products”, “user interface” (6d6b6d5).
• 25 May 2025: add reading material on ICT Accessibility and standards that incorporate WCAG 2 (05d6aa4).
• 6 May 2025: remove remaining instance of 2.0 reference. Update deploy script (2679000).
• 30 April: update name to apply more broadly.
• 28 April: simplify abstract, get URLs up to date and use HTTPS everywhere (f80d6aa).
• 15 April 2025: add IDs throughout that match the IDs in WCAG-EM 1.0 to ensure no internal links are broken. Replaced instances of WCAG 2.0 and links to WCAG 2.0 specific resources.
• 14 April 2025: auto-publish main.