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Introduction Standards documents change quietly. One morning an email titled “For Review” shows up in your inbox, and when you open the link, the document you read last time has a different structure. On September 10, 2026, the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) published a new WCAG 3 (3.0) Working Draft and sent out a call for review comments. A red pen resting beside the fanned-out pages of an open book - standards drafts get revised this quietly, and this often Photo: Emmanuel Phaeton / Unsplash This post is a direct comparison between that September draft and its immediate predecessor, the March 3, 2026 draft. I covered the March draft in WCAG 3 Status Check: A Complete Rundown of the March 2026 Draft — and one of that post’s key sections just got flipped on its head. ...

“Once WCAG 3 ships, what happens to the KWCAG we’re following right now?” That’s the question I get most often since publishing our complete KWCAG 2.2 guide. “WCAG 3” has started coming up often enough in accessibility newsletters and conference talks that it’s only natural to wonder how KWCAG, our domestic standard, should respond to this shift. Short answer up front: the two standards are moving at different speeds right now, and there’s no need to relearn KWCAG anytime soon. That said, a fairly significant structural shift is on the horizon, so it’s worth knowing the general direction if you work in this space. This post walks through what’s different between the two standards and why that difference matters. ...

“Our site needs accessibility certification — where do we even start?” That’s usually the first overwhelming question once this lands on your desk. Running a scanner and clearing every error it flags doesn’t get you certified, and the guidance out there is scattered across too many places. This post exists to cut through that confusion — walking through what certification actually verifies, what standard it’s judged against, and where the pass line sits, aimed squarely at someone preparing for it for the first time. ...

“Your project spec says ‘must comply with KWCAG 2.2.’ But what does that actually mean you have to do?” If you’ve ever worked on an accessibility project in Korea, you’ve probably paused at a line like that at least once. Search around and you’ll find WCAG mentioned in one place, KWCAG in another, versions 2.1 and 2.2 tangled together — it’s easy to lose track of which standard you’re actually supposed to follow. This post breaks down what KWCAG 2.2 actually is and how it’s structured, from a practitioner’s point of view. ...

Opening: treating scroll as “time” When you build scroll-based animations, you eventually hit this thought: “What if scroll were not just an input event” “but a proper timeline?” Scroll-Driven Animation is that idea made explicit. Instead of treating scroll as a trigger, you treat it as the timeline itself. In this post, I group implementation strategies into three families: Native CSS Scroll-Driven Animation IntersectionObserver for state changes scroll + requestAnimationFrame with manual progress mapping For each one, we will cover the principle, strengths, tradeoffs, and accessibility concerns. The code samples here are minimal and correct by themselves, and each section ends with a link to a live demo you can poke at directly. ...

↻ 2026-09-10 Updated A new Working Draft was published on September 10, 2026, and it changes the premise of the “Bronze/Silver/Gold Are Back” section below. The September draft defines a single conformance line (all core requirements met) and moves Bronze/Silver/Gold out of conformance into reporting tiers. The requirement count also grew from 182 to 216. This post stays as a record of the March draft; the changes are covered in What Changed in the WCAG 3 September 2026 Draft. Introduction Search for “WCAG 3” and articles describing the 2021 draft still show up near the top — the era of scoring criteria and tallying them into a grade, a concept that has completely disappeared from the document by now. Web standard drafts change fairly often, and there’s less material out there keeping up with the pace than you’d expect. ...

Introduction This is the seventh post in the WCAG 3.0 series. The expanded scope post looked at how far WCAG 3.0 reaches “beyond the web.” This time, I want to answer a question a lot of people keep asking me. “Should we migrate to WCAG 3.0?” Short answer up front: not yet. But there’s an important nuance to that answer. “Conformance” and “improvement” are two different conversations. Source document: This post is based on the W3C Working Draft of March 3, 2026. Drafts are generally updated on a roughly six-month cycle, so details may have shifted by the time you’re reading this. ...

This is a review of a product I paid for with my own money. There was no sponsorship or freebie involved — I’ve written honestly about both what I liked and what I didn’t. Intro: I Bought Yet Another Timer When I can’t focus, the easiest thing I reach for is a timer. You’ve probably heard of the Pomodoro technique — “focus for 25 minutes, rest for 5.” But when you actually try it, the problem shows up in a surprisingly simple place: even turning the timer on feels like a chore. ...

Analyzing accessibility issues on Google Antigravity's homepage — behind the flashy text animations Image: AI-generated Google takes accessibility seriously. Android’s TalkBack, Chrome’s accessibility developer tools, Lighthouse’s accessibility audits… Google-built tools are used by developers worldwide every day. The same goes for Microsoft — Accessibility Insights, Narrator, Windows high-contrast mode. When it comes to accessibility tooling, these two companies are in a league of their own. ...

↻ 2026-07-30 Updated Updated the basis document to the W3C Working Draft of March 3, 2026 — one draft newer than the version cited at publication time. Introduction This is the sixth post in the WCAG 3.0 series. This time I want to unpack what “beyond the web” actually means in practice. The earlier posts looked at structure, testing, and Assertions — now it’s time to get clear on “how far does the scope actually reach?” ...