WCAG 2.2's 6 New Criteria: Target Size Hits 24px
“I’ve looked at WCAG 2.1, but what’s new in 2.2?” I get this question a lot doing frontend work. WCAG 2.2 became a W3C Recommendation on October 5, 2023, so it’s been nearly three years now. For reference, the document currently posted at w3.org/TR/WCAG22/ is a December 12, 2024 revised recommendation — the success criteria themselves haven’t changed, it’s just a republication with post-finalization corrections folded in. Yet plenty of teams are still running their checklists against 2.1. It’s not that they don’t know the new criteria exist — it’s more that “nine new ones, do we really have to look at all of them?” has kept it on the back burner. ...