About two weeks ago, the WCAG WG released a new version of the Candidate Recommendation for WCAG 2.2. After it had been in the Editor’s Draft for quite some while, it changed the requirements for the Focus Appearance Success Criterion (SC). The SC was deemed to not be AA-worthy. With the W3C process, however, items marked as at risk, which this SC was, can only be removed before publication of the standard, not altered. So changing it to a AAA criterion meant that there had to be a new Cand...
