a11y teacher edition W3C WCAG 2.2 & WCAG 3.0 draft reference
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Translating W3C Standards for Designers, Developers, QA & Product teams

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WCAG 3.0 is an active W3C Working Draft in development by the AGWG. Requirements, assertions, the conformance model and reporting tiers are still being developed and may change. The latest published draft is the 10 September 2026 Working Draft; this site follows the editorsโ€™ draft, which also includes exploratory provisions.

developing Core requirement

Consequences Of Choices Explained

Group: policy-and-protection • Guideline: risk

Summary in Plain English

Choices with legal, financial, privacy or security consequences come with a description of the benefits, the risks and what may follow.

Why It Matters

Interfaces routinely present consequential choices as routine ones. An explicit description is what protects people who take the interface at its word.

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