Can components conform to WCAG?
August 25, 2025
We can build UI components with accessibility in mind. We can also document accessibility specifics alongside them. Both are helpful and recommended. What about claiming conformance? In this post, I’ll talk about how WCAG doesn’t allow for that, and why I believe WCAG is right.
This one is a little bit esoteric. We recently linked to Hidde de Vries’ analysis of the idea of compliance vs conformance, particularly when it comes to accessibility. Here Hidde looks at why Web Components cannot be conformant to the WCAG rules and why he thinks this is the right idea.
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