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 usability testing, including participants with cognitive or mental health disabilities, to find unnecessary steps and unnecessary requests for information.
Why It Matters
Every extra step is a place to give up. Which steps are unnecessary is visible in testing and invisible from inside the design.
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[Title, role, or organization] asserts that:
* Usability testing has been conducted to review for unnecessary steps in the process or unnecessary information being requested.
* The sample of test participants included people with cognitive disabilities and/or mental health based disabilities.
::assertion-required
* title, role, or organization making the assertion
* date of assertion
::assertion-recommended
* maintained records of usability testing protocol, scope of the testing, and results
* number of participants and disabilities represented within the group of participants
* record of actions taken to address identified issues