We should all be ashamed of the Web: WebAIM’s 2023 Accessibility report

96.3% of home pages had detected WCAG failures

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“Highlights”

Here are some key highlights from the WebAIM Million 2023 report.
Of the 1 million home pages tested:

• An average of 50 distinct accessibility errors were found per page
• 96.3% of home pages had detected WCAG failures
• 83.6% of home pages had a Low Contrast Text failure
• 22.1% of all home page images had missing alternative text (an average of 9.6 per page)
• 35.8% of home pages had improperly labeled form inputs
• 42.2% of all pages had skipped heading levels present
• An average of 77 ARIA attributes per page detected

As an accessibility advocate, these results are… disheartening.

What is the WebAIM Million?

WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) is a non-profit organization from the Institute for Disability Research, Policy, and Practice at Utah State University.

Earlier in 2023, they published the results of their fifth accessibility report on the top one million pages called “WebAIM…