WCAG 3.0 Accessibility Testing Compliance 2026: Standards, Timeline, Tools, and How to Prepare Your Stack

WCAG 3.0 — the next major version of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines — is being drafted right now, and it will redefine how digital products prove they are accessible. This is Vervali's pillar hub for WCAG 3.0 accessibility testing compliance. It covers what changes from WCAG 2.2, the realistic release timeline, the state of testing tools and frameworks, new surfaces like XR and voice interfaces, how Section 508 and the EU Accessibility Act fit in, and what a sensible 2026 preparation plan looks like. If you are already running audits under the current standard, our complete WCAG 2.2, ADA, Section 508, and EAA compliance guide is the right starting point; if you operate in a regulated vertical like Indian banking, see our RBI accessibility guidelines for Indian banking playbook. This guide is not a tool-by-tool review, not a deep-dive Section 508 timeline, and not a cost model — those live in seven planned spoke articles linked throughout. Vervali's accessibility testing services team is tracking every WCAG 3.0 working draft in real time; what follows is the operator's view of where the standard is, what it means for your test stack in 2026, and where to go next.

What You'll Learn

• How WCAG 3.0's outcome-based, graded conformance model differs from WCAG 2.2's binary pass/fail criteria

• The realistic WCAG 3.0 timeline, from the March 2026 Working Draft to the late-2029 Recommendation target

• Why no current testing tool — axe, WAVE, Lighthouse, or commercial platforms — offers WCAG 3.0 support today

• What the Sept 2025 Working Draft says about XR, voice, and AI-generated content

• Where Section 508, ADA Title II (April 24, 2026 deadline), and the EU Accessibility Act fit in the transition

• A 2026 preparation playbook: how to scope, audit, and budget without over-investing in an unstable standard

Key Finding: "95.9% of the top 1,000,000 home pages have at least one detectable WCAG 2 A/AA failure" — WebAIM Million, 2026. WCAG 2 compliance is still the unsolved problem in 2026; WCAG 3.0 preparation is additive, not a replacement.

What Is WCAG 3.0 and How Does It Differ From WCAG 2.2?

WCAG 3.0 is the next major version of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, currently being drafted by the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG). According to the W3C WCAG 3 Introduction, updated March 2026, WCAG 3.0 is an incomplete Working Draft with a conformance model that will be "very different from WCAG 2." WCAG 3.0 will not supersede WCAG 2.2 — both standards will coexist for several years after WCAG 3.0 is finalized, and WCAG 2.2 will not be deprecated. This coexistence is the single most important fact for QA leaders: nothing you are doing for WCAG 2.2 compliance is wasted, and no regulator is going to ask for WCAG 3.0 conformance in 2026.

The substantive change is the evaluation model. WCAG 2.x uses 86 success criteria, each scored as a binary pass or fail at Level A, AA, or AAA. WCAG 3.0 replaces that with outcome-based guidelines grouped into 12 functional categories, evaluated on a graded scoring scale. The September 2025 Working Draft introduces three kinds of testable provisions: core requirements (mandatory for conformance), supplemental requirements (additional credit), and assertions (documented organizational commitments to accessibility practices). According to Smashing Magazine, May 2025, individual tests can be binary (yes/no), percentage-based (coverage metrics like "what fraction of images have alt text"), or qualitative (judgment-based, scored 0–4 or 0–5 from Poor to Excellent). A "critical errors" mechanism overrides positive scores when a failure blocks a core user action such as checkout, login, or form submission.

The second major change is scope. WCAG 3.0 explicitly covers desktops, laptops, tablets, mobile devices, wearables, IoT, and VR/AR content, plus authoring tools, user agents, and AI-generated content. WCAG 2.x was written primarily for web pages; WCAG 3.0 treats accessibility as an organizational practice across every digital surface a customer touches. The third change is the shift from "pages" to "views" and "processes" — a view is whatever content is actively available in the viewport, and a process is a sequence of views a user must complete (like checking out of an e-commerce store). Per AbilityNet, February 2026, conformance is measured against processes, not individual pages — which makes sense for modern single-page applications and shifts measurement closer to how users actually experience a product.

Counts of WCAG 3.0 "outcomes" are a moving target. The September 2025 Working Draft documents approximately 174 outcomes across 12 categories. Knowbility's 2025 webinar with AGWG co-chair Rachael Bradley Montgomery presented approximately 220 requirements and assertions — a figure that reflects subsequent Developing-status content being added. Expect both numbers to drift over the next several draft cycles. What does not drift is the core shift: WCAG 3.0 is designed to reward continuous accessibility maturity instead of punishing every missed checkbox.

Pro Tip: Do not refactor your 2026 accessibility program around WCAG 3.0. The standard is not finalized, no regulator mandates it, and your WCAG 2.2 work rolls forward directly — WCAG 3.0's Bronze tier is explicitly scoped to "roughly equivalent to WCAG 2.2 AA" per Smashing Magazine, May 2025. Keep shipping WCAG 2.2 fixes, and layer WCAG 3.0 readiness on top.

When Will WCAG 3.0 Be Released and Become a Legal Requirement?

The answer to "when is WCAG 3.0 coming" has to be read on two timelines: the W3C publication timeline and the regulatory adoption timeline. They are not the same, and the gap between them is where most enterprise teams get confused.

On the W3C timeline, the most recent milestone is the March 2026 Working Draft, published March 3, 2026. The W3C has stated that draft updates are scheduled every six months, meaning the next expected Working Draft lands around September 2026. According to AbilityNet's February 2026 analysis, the Candidate Recommendation is anticipated in Q4 2027, with the W3C Recommendation expected no earlier than 2028. In a Knowbility webinar referenced in Knowbility's 2025 post, AGWG co-chair Rachael Bradley Montgomery said, "We are aiming to have WCAG 3, the recommendation document... out in 2029, probably towards the end of 2029." Put plainly: the earliest a stable, citable WCAG 3.0 Recommendation exists is late 2029, and any 2028 date you see assumes no further scope additions — which is not how the draft has evolved so far.

The regulatory adoption timeline runs several years behind the W3C publication date. Per the U.S. Access Board's revised Section 508 standards, the active US federal standard still references WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA — a standard adopted in 2017 and effective January 2018. According to the Section 508 Program Roadmap, there is no published timeline for a Section 508 refresh, and WCAG 3.0 is not referenced anywhere in current federal accessibility standards. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Justice ADA Title II web rule requires WCAG 2.1 Level AA for state and local governments, with the compliance deadline of April 24, 2026 for entities serving populations of 50,000 or more, and April 26, 2027 for smaller entities. In Europe, the European Accessibility Act went into enforcement on June 28, 2025 against a technical standard (EN 301 549) that also aligns to WCAG 2.1 AA — not WCAG 3.0.

Key Finding: There are currently three different WCAG versions active in US and EU law — Section 508 on WCAG 2.0, ADA Title II on WCAG 2.1, EAA/EN 301 549 on WCAG 2.1 — and WCAG 3.0 is not referenced in any of them. Reconciling the split is itself a multi-year process before WCAG 3.0 becomes a mandate.

Montgomery emphasized that WCAG 3.0 cannot force adoption on its own; legal uptake depends on regulatory bodies incorporating the standard by reference, which is how Section 508 and ADA rules work. That means federal mandates for WCAG 3.0 are likely 2030 or later at the earliest. The practical read for QA leaders: plan your 2026 and 2027 investments against WCAG 2.1 AA (ADA Title II) and WCAG 2.2 AA (best-practice de facto), add WCAG 3.0 Bronze readiness to your 2028 roadmap, and treat Silver and Gold as aspirational.

For the deep dive on when federal procurement and contracts will shift to WCAG 3.0, we are publishing a dedicated spoke, Section 508 Update and WCAG 3.0: When Will the US Federal Standard Align? In the meantime, the headline takeaway: 2026 is a WCAG 2.1 / WCAG 2.2 year, and WCAG 3.0 compliance is a forward-looking program, not a deadline.

What Is the WCAG 3.0 Tool and Testing Framework Landscape in 2026?

Tool support is where WCAG 3.0 preparation gets uncomfortable: nothing currently on the market tests against WCAG 3.0 natively. The major automated accessibility scanners — axe-core, WAVE, Lighthouse, and Pa11y — all target WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 rule sets. Commercial platforms such as Level Access, Deque, and Siteimprove are tracking the draft but publicly treat WCAG 3.0 support as "roadmap." According to Forrester's "Five Themes From The Forrester Wave: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2025", nine vendors were evaluated, and even for WCAG 2.x coverage the market still shows meaningful capability gaps in mobile testing, PDF testing, and ROI measurement — let alone WCAG 3.0.

The automation ceiling is the second issue. According to TestParty's Best WCAG Testing Tools 2025 analysis, only 25–40% of WCAG violations are detectable by automated tools alone — the remainder requires manual testing, assistive-technology validation, and human judgment. WCAG 3.0 makes this harder, not easier, because it introduces qualitative and percentage-based tests that are explicitly meant to require evaluator judgment. Smashing Magazine calls out the calibration-variability challenge directly: different evaluators may score the same implementation differently on a 0–4 qualitative scale, which means tool vendors will need new rubrics, training content, and inter-rater reliability checks before they can market "WCAG 3.0 scoring."

Mobile is a leading indicator for where WCAG 3.0 tooling will go. In June 2025, LambdaTest launched mobile accessibility testing capabilities for Android and iOS, with its Android Scanner and iOS Automation integrating into CI/CD pipelines. LambdaTest Co-Founder and CEO Asad Khan stated, "Accessibility should never be an afterthought; it is a cornerstone of exceptional mobile experiences." LambdaTest's product references WCAG guidelines generally but is anchored to WCAG 2.x. Expect the same pattern across the tooling market in 2026–2027: vendors will add mobile coverage, CI/CD hooks, and AI-assisted triage long before they can claim native WCAG 3.0 conformance.

For the tool-by-tool deep dive — pricing, rule counts, CI/CD integration patterns, and vendor roadmaps — see our dedicated spoke WCAG 3.0 Tools and Testing Automation: What Your Stack Needs to Support. For teams who need to wire accessibility checks into existing release pipelines today, Vervali's test automation services include axe-core, WAVE, and Lighthouse orchestration inside CI/CD, so WCAG 2.2 regression is caught on every commit without blocking velocity.

Watch Out: Any vendor claiming "WCAG 3.0 certified scanning" in 2026 is selling a roadmap, not a product. The standard is still in Developing status for most content — there is no stable, citable conformance model to test against. Ask vendors for (1) AGWG participation evidence, (2) a draft-tracking changelog, and (3) their qualitative-scoring calibration methodology. If they cannot answer those three, their "WCAG 3.0 support" is marketing.

The AI angle matters here because WCAG 3.0 is structurally friendlier to AI-assisted testing than WCAG 2.x. Qualitative and percentage-based tests are exactly the kind of judgment work where large language models can triage, summarize, and prioritize — turning an hour-long manual audit of a single view into a 10-minute reviewer-confirmed pass. Vervali's AI-powered accessibility scanning is built around this pattern today for WCAG 2.2, and extends naturally to WCAG 3.0 as the draft stabilizes. The point is not to replace expert manual testers; it is to let them cover more surface area with higher confidence.

How Does WCAG 3.0 Change Accessibility Testing for XR, Voice, and AI-Generated Content?

The biggest scope expansion in WCAG 3.0 is not the scoring model — it is what counts as "content." The September 2025 Working Draft lists desktops, laptops, tablets, mobile devices, wearable devices, and IoT, plus VR/AR, audiovisual media, and static, dynamic, and streaming content as in scope. For anyone testing a pure web product today, this is a non-event; for anyone shipping AR/VR apps, voice-first interfaces, connected devices, or AI-generated content, it is the first time accessibility has a first-class normative framework to point to.

The foundation document for XR is the W3C's XR Accessibility User Requirements (XAUR), a Working Group Note that lays out 19 major user needs across navigation, interaction, customization, and multimodal support in XR environments. XAUR is not a conformance standard on its own — it is informative — but the September 2025 WCAG 3.0 draft folds the same requirements into its "Exploratory" status content. "Exploratory" is the earliest stage in the WCAG 3.0 status model (Placeholder → Exploratory → Developing → Refining → Mature), which tells you exactly how to treat XR requirements in your 2026 planning: real, coming, but unstable. Do not build a compliance program around Exploratory content.

Voice and speech accessibility is a specific thread inside this scope. XAUR's User Need 5 addresses the case where users need to navigate, interact, and communicate in XR environments using voice alone — relevant both for spatial computing and for voice-first interfaces like smart speakers, in-car assistants, and IVR systems. WCAG 3.0 brings these under the same outcome-based conformance model used for web content: can a voice-only user complete the core process, are critical errors recoverable without sighted interaction, is AI-generated speech content captioned or labelled for review? These are the questions tool vendors will have to answer before they can credibly claim voice-interface WCAG 3.0 testing.

AI-generated content is a third frontier. According to AbilityNet's February 2026 analysis, the draft includes assertions requiring documented human review of AI-generated content and the use of unbiased training data. This is where WCAG 3.0 starts to look less like a technical specification and more like an organizational-maturity framework — assertions are essentially governance controls, not rendered DOM properties. For enterprise QA teams, it means accessibility testing scope is going to include the LLM pipelines generating product copy, alt text, chatbot responses, and synthetic media.

Tool coverage for XR, voice, and AI content is effectively zero in 2026. No commercial accessibility testing platform offers turnkey WCAG 3.0 XR conformance today; at best, vendors offer manual expert-review services using XAUR as the rubric. Vervali's mobile accessibility testing practice, which today covers screen reader behavior across iOS VoiceOver and Android TalkBack on real devices, extends into emerging-platform testing on AR headsets, voice-first smart-device interfaces, and conversational AI. This is where the "Global Yet Local" positioning matters: our teams span the US, EU, and India markets, so we can staff manual XR and voice review with the language and assistive-technology coverage regulations require. For the full tutorial on how to structure XR and voice accessibility testing under WCAG 3.0, our spoke article XR and Voice Accessibility: How WCAG 3.0 Changes Testing for AR/VR and Voice Interfaces goes deeper than we can here.

How Does Section 508, ADA Title II, and the EU Accessibility Act Align With WCAG 3.0?

Current regulatory standards do not reference WCAG 3.0 — they reference older WCAG versions. Understanding the split is more useful than speculating about convergence, because until a regulator updates its rule, you are legally compliant against the regulator's cited version, not the newest W3C draft.

Section 508 (US federal agencies and contractors) references WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA, per the U.S. Access Board revised 508 standards that became effective on January 18, 2017 (correction January 22, 2018). There is no published refresh timeline. The Section 508 Program Roadmap at Section508.gov confirms no alignment timetable with WCAG 2.1, WCAG 2.2, or WCAG 3.0. For any team selling software, services, or content to the US federal government in 2026, Section 508 with WCAG 2.0 A/AA is the binding standard. Our government-platform client passed a full Section 508 audit with zero major violations after engagement — the pattern for federal readiness has not changed.

ADA Title II (US state and local governments), per the DOJ's 2024 rule, requires WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Compliance deadlines are April 24, 2026 for entities serving 50,000 or more people, and April 26, 2027 for smaller entities. The rule includes an "equivalent facilitation" provision that lets agencies use alternative technical standards in the future — which is the mechanism by which WCAG 3.0 could eventually be accepted at the state and local level without a full rulemaking cycle. That still requires DOJ action, and none is pending as of April 2026.

European Accessibility Act (EU) enforcement went live on June 28, 2025 per Pivotal Accessibility's September 2025 review. The EAA's technical standard is EN 301 549, which aligns to WCAG 2.1 AA. Country-specific penalties include up to €40,000 or 5% of turnover (Italy), €50,000 (France), €100,000 (Germany), and up to €1,000,000 (Spain) for non-compliance. Existing products have a five-year grace window through June 2030, but new products and services launched after June 28, 2025 must conform today. WCAG 3.0 is not referenced in EAA enforcement.

Private US websites under ADA Title III remain governed by case law rather than a single rulemaking. The pressure is lawsuit volume, not rule updates: according to Seyfarth Shaw's ADA Title III tracker, 3,117 website accessibility lawsuits were filed in US federal courts in 2025 — a 27% year-over-year increase, and 36% of all ADA Title III federal lawsuits for the year. New York (1,021 cases), Florida (961), and Illinois (585) drive the docket. These filings cite WCAG 2.1 or 2.2 in their claimed violations, not WCAG 3.0.

Key Finding: "3,117 website accessibility lawsuits filed in US federal courts in 2025 — a 27% increase year-over-year" — Seyfarth Shaw / ADA Title III, 2026. Lawsuit pressure continues to rise against WCAG 2.x, not WCAG 3.0 — your 2026 risk is measured in the current standard.

For enterprise teams running concurrent multi-jurisdiction programs — a US e-commerce brand with an EU marketplace and a federal procurement arm, for example — the practical picture is three active WCAG versions, three different enforcement mechanisms, and one forward-looking draft. Vervali's compliance testing services stitch together WCAG 2.1/2.2, HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and GDPR compliance validation under one workflow, so the regulatory mesh is covered in parallel rather than sequentially.

How Should You Prepare Your Testing Stack for WCAG 3.0 in 2026?

WCAG 3.0 preparation in 2026 is an audit, investment, and training problem — not a tooling problem, because the tools are not ready. The working principle: spend 80% of your effort on active WCAG 2.1/2.2 compliance, and 20% on WCAG 3.0 readiness. Here is the concrete playbook.

Step 1 — Audit your current WCAG 2.2 posture. If you do not have a clean, recent WCAG 2.2 Level AA audit, that is your first investment, not WCAG 3.0 prep. The WebAIM Million 2026 report found 95.9% of the top 1 million home pages have at least one detectable WCAG 2 A/AA failure, averaging 56.1 errors per page; 83.9% have low-contrast text errors, which is the single most common issue. If WCAG 2.2 Bronze is broken, WCAG 3.0 Silver is a fantasy. A typical first audit takes four to six weeks per our service scope, covering automated scanning with Axe, WAVE, and Lighthouse, plus manual review with VoiceOver and TalkBack.

Step 2 — Establish a continuous-compliance baseline. WCAG 3.0 is an outcome-based model, and outcomes are tracked over time — meaning point-in-time audits are the wrong measurement shape. Integrate axe-core or an equivalent into CI/CD so every pull request is checked for WCAG 2.2 regressions. In our Emaratech engagement, automation testing raised test coverage from 70% to 80%, cut regression testing from multiple days to a few hours, and reduced manual regression effort by over 50% — the same infrastructure pattern applies to accessibility regression. Pair automation with scheduled expert manual reviews (monthly or per-release).

Step 3 — Identify vendor WCAG 3.0 roadmaps and track draft cycles. The six-month WCAG 3.0 draft cadence means every September and March, something changes in the scoring model, outcome set, or assertion list. Build a standing review of (a) new W3C draft updates, (b) Forrester Wave / analyst coverage of platform vendors, and (c) your current tool vendor's changelog for WCAG 3.0 references. Teams that do this get twelve months of lead time on any regulatory move. Teams that do not, get surprised.

Step 4 — Train your QA and product teams on outcome-based thinking. The biggest single behaviour change is moving from "we failed success criterion 1.4.3" to "the contrast outcome is scored 2 of 4 on this view, and the critical-errors check flagged the checkout form." This is not a tool change; it is a mindset change. Introduce WCAG 3.0 vocabulary (outcomes, assertions, Bronze/Silver/Gold, views, processes) into existing WCAG 2.2 reviews now, so the team is fluent by the time Candidate Recommendation ships.

Step 5 — Pilot WCAG 3.0 readiness on one high-visibility product or journey. Pick one checkout flow, one onboarding process, or one mobile-first product. Do a parallel WCAG 2.2 AA audit and a WCAG 3.0 Bronze mock-audit using the current Working Draft. Measure the delta. Document what a Silver-tier target would require. This is how you build credible board-level answers to "when will we be WCAG 3.0 ready." Pair this with related compliance work — our cloud compliance testing guide for HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, and PCI DSS shows how enterprise teams layer standards on a common control inventory.

TL;DR: WCAG 3.0 readiness in 2026 = a sound WCAG 2.2 baseline + continuous CI/CD scanning + quarterly draft tracking + outcome-based training + one piloted WCAG 3.0 Bronze mock-audit. That is it. Do not over-invest in unstable requirements.

What Does WCAG 3.0 Compliance Testing Cost and What Is the ROI?

Cost modelling for WCAG 3.0 specifically is premature — no vendor has production WCAG 3.0 test packages yet — but the economics of accessibility investment are well established, and the preparation costs for 2026–2028 are knowable. The market is real: per Mordor Intelligence's accessibility testing market report, the global accessibility testing market sat at approximately USD 610 million in 2025, growing to approximately USD 828 million by 2031 at a 5.21% CAGR.

On the benefit side, three industry-estimated figures from TestParty's 2025 ROI roundup frame the upside. Industry research suggests building accessibility proactively can reduce remediation costs by up to 67% compared to retrofitting, and integrating accessibility testing into CI/CD pipelines has been associated with up to 23% lower development costs. The Click-Away Pound research, confirmed in TestParty's 2025 source, found that 71% of customers with disabilities leave inaccessible websites without complaint — they simply do not return. The same roundup cites Return on Disability Group data showing $13 trillion in annual global spending power tied to the disability community.

On the risk side, the numbers sharpen. Per Seyfarth Shaw, 2026, 3,117 US federal lawsuits in 2025 is the measurable exposure. One of our enterprise clients eliminated potential ADA lawsuit exposure within 60 days of engagement after an accessibility testing program — the cost of a single contested federal case typically exceeds a full audit and remediation program by an order of magnitude.

For outsourced WCAG 3.0 readiness, the model that works is blended delivery: experienced local leads for regulatory interpretation and stakeholder reporting, paired with offshore testing teams for scanning, manual reviews, and remediation tracking. This is where Vervali's "Global Yet Local" model is concretely useful — our teams span US ADA, EU EAA, and India RBI regulatory environments, so a single engagement can maintain WCAG 2.1/2.2 compliance across jurisdictions while running a parallel WCAG 3.0 pilot. Our e-commerce client reached 100% ADA compliance and improved conversions by 30% through the same approach; a separate mobile app client cut accessibility defects by 85%. For a full cost-and-ROI breakdown including in-house vs. outsourced models, CI/CD integration ROI, and WCAG 3.0 readiness budget templates, see our spoke Accessibility Testing Cost and ROI: Budget Planning for WCAG 3.0 Implementation.

How Is Vervali Preparing for WCAG 3.0 Accessibility Testing?

Vervali's accessibility testing practice is anchored in WCAG 2.1/2.2, ADA, and Section 508 today, with WCAG 3.0 tracking as a layered practice. We run a six-stage methodology on every engagement: accessibility audit and scoping; automated scan plus manual review using Axe, WAVE, Lighthouse, TalkBack, and VoiceOver; assistive-technology compatibility validation on real devices; issue categorization and prioritization by WCAG level and business impact; remediation guidance with developer-friendly references; and re-testing with continuous-compliance monitoring. The same workflow adapts to WCAG 3.0 outcome-based scoring as the draft stabilizes — the evidence we already capture (contrast ratios, alt-text coverage, keyboard paths, assistive-tech behavior) maps directly to the scoring inputs WCAG 3.0 will require.

Two Vervali USPs map directly to WCAG 3.0 realities. First, Global Yet Local: our teams span 15+ countries and serve clients simultaneously under US ADA, EU EAA, and India RBI accessibility regulations. That multi-jurisdiction context is the one thing no pure-automation tool can replicate — WCAG 3.0's qualitative tests require evaluators who understand both the language and the regulatory subtext. Second, AI-Powered Engineering: our AI-driven frameworks triage scanning output, surface high-risk views for manual review, and compress the time between a code push and an accessibility verdict. WCAG 3.0's qualitative and percentage-based tests are where AI-assisted testing earns its keep — it turns subjective scoring into a reviewable draft a human expert can confirm in minutes.

Representative outcomes across our accessibility testing practice include: 80% test coverage achieved at Emaratech (up from 70%) with regression testing compressed from days to hours; 100% ADA compliance with a 30% conversion lift for an e-commerce client; a Section 508 audit passed with zero major violations for a government platform; 85% reduction in accessibility defects for a mobile app client; and elimination of ADA lawsuit exposure within 60 days of engagement for an enterprise client. These are WCAG 2.x outcomes — they are also the foundation on which WCAG 3.0 Bronze readiness is built.

Ready to Prepare for WCAG 3.0 — Without Over-Investing in an Unstable Standard?

Vervali's accessibility testing services give you a WCAG 2.1/2.2 baseline in four to six weeks, continuous CI/CD scanning to hold that baseline, and a WCAG 3.0 readiness program that scales with each Working Draft. Trusted by 200+ product teams across 15 countries, our hybrid onshore/offshore model lets you run US ADA, EU EAA, and emerging WCAG 3.0 work under one engagement. Explore our QA and testing services or schedule a consultation to map your current compliance posture to the WCAG 3.0 timeline.

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