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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.

exploratory Core requirement

No Memorization

Group: process-and-task-completion • Guideline: avoid-exclusionary-cognitive-tasks

Summary in Plain English

An exploratory requirement: a process can be completed without having to memorise and recall information from an earlier stage.

Why It Matters

Requiring recall turns a task into a memory test, which excludes people with memory impairments, and is harder for anyone interrupted mid-process.

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