I think there’s a misunderstanding here. The w3c WAI is not a single
“March 2026” reset of standards, but an ongoing set of accessibility
guidelines and supporting documents (e.g., evolving wcag versions)
maintained over time rather than a one-time revision point. Similarly,
the xhtml-era discussions from the early 2000s didn’t get “replaced” in
a single decision so much as industry support gradually converged on
HTML5 and later the HTML living standard due to practical adoption
realities. Either way, the core issue raised in the thread still seems
less about how recent the standards are and more about inconsistent
implementation of progressive enhancement and accessibility requirements
in modern web development....
On 6/15/26 11:12 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Good morning,
On Mon, 15 Jun 2026, Borden wrote:
You may remember the W3C tried to reset web standards back in 2002 to
fix all the issues. Developers and browsers said “We're not rewriting
every webpage on the Internet,” so they developed HTML5 instead and
grandfathered in every problem that HTML had that XHTML was supposed
to fix.
Actually, the current w3c standards are dated from March 2026.
www.w3.org/wai.
Unsure why your understanding is more than 20 years out of date.
Kare
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