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 editors’ draft, which also includes exploratory provisions.
An organisational assertion: the organisation states that it ran a usability test including participants with cognitive or mental health disabilities to look for misleading wording, artificial pressure and misdirection, and removed what it found.
Why It Matters
Deceptive patterns work by exploiting the gap between what an interface appears to offer and what it does - a gap that is widest for users who read it literally.
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[Title, role, or organization] asserts that:
* We conducted a usability test that included participants with cognitive disabilities and/or mental health based disabilities to evaluate content for misleading wording, artificial pressure, misdirection, and other deceptive practices.
* We removed any deceptive practices found.
::assertion-required
* title, role, or organization making the assertion (if different from the conformance claim)
* date of assertion
::assertion-recommended
* number of participants
* the deceptive practices evaluated
* maintained records of usability testing protocol, and results
* disabilities represented within the group of participants