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  • Hiddehdv
    Jul 23, 2026, 2:51 PM

    📣 Today is the day: WCAG-EM 2 is officially out as a W3C Note!

    w3.org/TR/WCAG-EM/

    What's new?

    1. the name; it's now “WCAG Evaluation Methodology” (was: Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology)
    2. it's no longer about websites
    3. it's about 'digital products' (of which websites and apps are examples)
    improved readability (uses most recent W3C template)
    4. up to date examples, illustrations, etc (eg I removed jQuery / Dojo references, and added things about design systems)

    screenshot of WCAG-EM 2 doc, with on top 3 screenshots, one of the bank example, one of the steps and one of the types of docs
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  • Hiddehdv
    Jul 23, 2026, 3:20 PM

    The methodology helps with similar things that VPATs help with, and is extensively used in some EU countries, including the Netherlands, where I am.

    In fact, we have thousands of websites and apps that we at @Logius / @DigiToegankelijk monitor that use WCAG-EM as the reporting methodology.

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  • modul_dsmodul_ds@mastodon.social
    Jul 29, 2026, 2:20 PM

    @hdv 'it's no longer about websites' is the change that matters here - a lot of WCAG tooling quietly assumes DOM and ARIA as ground truth, and that assumption breaks the moment you evaluate a native app that has no DOM at all.

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