Kris Rivenburgh explains why "WCAG Compliance" is the wrong terminology.

Always use conformance when referring to WCAG because WCAG is a set of voluntary standards and not the law.

Use compliance when referring to mandatory requirements from a governing body (e.g., the law or regulations).  

Examples:

Watch Kris explain why WCAG is not the legal standard under the  Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), meaningful access is:

https://youtu.be/IXWDiMTlOmk

Read Kris's landmark article on ADA Compliance for websites:

https://krisrivenburgh.medium.com/the-ada-checklist-website-compliance-guidelines-for-2019-in-plain-english-123c1d58fad9  

Kris designed the ADA Compliance Course (ACC) as instructions you can give your team to fix the most commonly claimed issues in ADA website lawsuits. The ACC is really an SOP for your web team. Your team can get started in minutes at https://ADACompliance.net/.

Watch Kris on YouTube @adabook:

https://youtube.com/@adabook

Connect with Kris directly on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/adabook 

The ADA Compliance Course is available at https://ADACompliance.net.

Kris offers accessibility services including WCAG 2.1 AA manual audits and remediation at https://accessible.org.

Kris also wrote the book on ADA compliance for digital assets.  You can find out more about The ADA Book at https://ADABook.com.

Transcript:

https://adabook.com/conformance-vs-compliance-wcag-ada/