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.
Worked examples the W3C editors wrote into the provision itself, not
examples invented here.
Examples of interoperable formats
PDF
HTML
SVG
OpenDocument
Examples of non-interoperable formats
Scriptable Network Graphics
DOCX, unless you know your audience has the required software (for example, you’re writing internal documents for your company which provides employees with the necessary software)
Adjust aspects of the text appearance, such as size, style, and color.
Export, save, and print the content.
Check that the customizations in #1 remain intact in the exported/saved/printed version. If there are multiple export options, check that at least one preserves the customizations.
Expected results
#3 is true.
W3C Working Group Status
W3C Maturity Status:developing
Track / Group:text-and-wording
The draft records no open editors' notes on this provision.
W3C Threads on This Provision
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Content that is exported, saved, or printed retains user-applied text-appearance customizations.
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* the page/view can be exported, saved, or printed.
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Examples of interoperable formats
* PDF
* HTML
* SVG
* OpenDocument
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Examples of non-interoperable formats
* Scriptable Network Graphics
* DOCX, unless you know your audience has the required software (for example, you’re writing internal documents for your company which provides employees with the necessary software)
* Java object code
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