WCAG 3 Status Check: A Complete Rundown of the March 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. This post rounds up where WCAG 3 (3.0) stands as of the March 3, 2026 W3C Working Draft. I want to cover how the structure changed, how many requirements there actually are, what happened to the conformance levels, and what’s still left blank — all in one pass. ...