WCAG 3, increment or overhaul?

DRANK

It’s charter time for the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, well, in 6 months, but we have to start the planning well in advance!The charter (see the last charter) defines what we work on, and to some degree how we work on it. A question the group is considering is what approach to take to the next 2 years of work.In the last charter we agreed to go full-steam ahead on WCAG3, an overhaul of the guidelines. That’s going reasonably well, and we’re tracking the plan.A question has been raised though: Should we be incrementally updating WCAG 2 instead?The question of starting point came up before our last charter point, I have a strong opinion on it, but I didn’t have these points written down from then.I have to take my “chair hat” off here, this is my personal opinion. The following points may influence other people (kinda the point of writing them down), but as chair I’ll go with the group’s decision.I think that overhauling WCAG is necessary for the next version, not jus…