NEWS & REPORTS · EDITORIAL BRIEF
Accessibility evaluation guidance now covers more digital products
Hidde de Vries, Jeroen Hulscher and Steve Faulkner, editors
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative · 23 July 2026
The finding or development
WCAG-EM 2.0 sets out a process for defining scope, sampling, testing and reporting accessibility conformance across digital products, extending beyond websites.
What supports it
W3C Group Note · evaluation methodology
Reviewed: Published methodology, scope and status
Why it matters for design
A practical structure for documenting an accessibility evaluation and explaining the boundaries of its findings.
Read with this in mind
Informative guidance, not a new accessibility standard. A sampled evaluation cannot replace all user research or product-wide quality assurance.
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