The short answer
The public contents gives accessibility its own clause, clause 9, with a specific subclause on the text description of an image. The requirement wording is not in the free preview.
What the public record shows
The specific duty visible in the public record is a text description for an image, which lands directly on the screenshots, illustrations and video in clause 7.4. This site uses WCAG 2.2 AA as a working benchmark for preparation and labels it as our benchmark, not as a requirement of the draft.
What it means for a mobile team
The practical question is not whether the draft is perfect. It is what work can start now without betting on wording that may change. The planning clause, the audience definition, the mobile context sheet, the help form map, the device test plan and the image text descriptions all survive a change of wording. Start there, keep the register, and re-read the published text when it appears.
What this answer does not claim
It does not claim that ISO has announced a date, that the draft is final, that a certificate is affected, or that a team following this page conforms to the standard. The free preview stops after clause 3; the pages for clauses 4 to 9 say so.
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Source
ISO/IEC/IEEE DIS 26517, standard record 87297
https://www.iso.org/standard/87297.html
Read 21 October 2026. Title, edition 1, 34 pages, stage 40.60 on 2026-06-25, DIS registered 2026-01-23, ballot opened 2026-04-01, committee ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7, ICS 35.080 and 35.240.95, CHF 67, abstract, life cycle.
ISO Online Browsing Platform, free preview of ISO/IEC/IEEE DIS 26517
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iso:std:iso-iec-ieee:26517:dis:ed-1:v1:en
Read 21 October 2026. Free preview: complete table of contents, foreword, introduction, clause 1 scope, clause 2 normative reference, clause 3 terms and abbreviated terms, bibliography. Clauses 4 to 9 and Annex A are listed but their text is not in the free preview.
The rules this is built from
Read from the real rules, not invented.
Every line points to the public ISO page or the free preview it came from, so you can check it yourself.
- 80 headings and defined terms
- 12 dated stages behind the draft
- 26514:2022 named as the normative reference
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