ISO/IEC 40500:2025

Information technology — W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2

Publication date:   Sep 24, 2025

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90.92   Standard to be revised   Feb 5, 2026

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Scope

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 defines how to make Web content more accessible to people with disabilities. Accessibility involves a wide range of disabilities, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological disabilities. Although these guidelines cover a wide range of issues, they are not able to address the needs of people with all types, degrees, and combinations of disability. These guidelines also make Web content more usable by older individuals with changing abilities due to aging and often improve usability for users in general.
WCAG 2.2 success criteria are written as testable statements that are not technology-specific. Guidance about satisfying the success criteria in specific technologies, as well as general information about interpreting the success criteria, is provided in separate documents.
The WCAG 2.2 standard, technical and educational material supporting implementation of WCAG 2.2, and translations of WCAG 2.2 are available from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview.

Life cycle

PREVIOUSLY

WITHDRAWN
ISO/IEC 40500:2012

NOW

PUBLISHED
ISO/IEC 40500:2025
90.92 Standard to be revised
Feb 5, 2026

REVISED BY

IN_DEVELOPMENT
ISO/IEC DIS 40500

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Adopted from WCAG 2.2