A Roundup Of WCAG 2.2 Explainers — Smashing Magazine

WCAG 2.2 is officially the latest version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines now that it has become a “W3C Recommended” web standard as of October 5.

The changes between WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 are nicely summed up in “What’s New in WCAG 2.2”:

“WCAG 2.2 provides 9 additional success criteria since WCAG 2.1. […] The 2.0 and 2.1 success criteria are essentially the same in 2.2, with one exception: 4.1.1 Parsing is obsolete and removed from WCAG 2.2.”

This article is not a deep look at the changes, what they mean, and how to conform to them. Plenty of other people have done a wonderful job of that already. So, rather than add to the pile, let’s round up what has already been written and learn from those who keep a close pulse on the WCAG beat.

There are countless articles and posts about WCAG 2.2 written ahead of the formal W3C recommendation. The following links were selected because they were either published or updated after the announcement and reflect the most current information at the time of this writing. It’s also worth mentioning that we’re providing these links purely for reference — by no means are they sponsored, nor do...