Your daily frequent11y newsletter, brought to you by @ChrisBAshton:
- This is an annual report that uses the WAVE web accessibility testing tool to analyse the homepages of the top 1 million websites. Compared to last year:
- The number of detectable accessibility errors dropped from 60.9 to 51.4.
- The number of DOM elements in the page has increased from 864 to 887.
- 97.4% of home pages had detectable WCAG 2 failures, down from 98.1%. These were most commonly missing
alttext, empty links & buttons, missing language metadata and low contrast text. The latter affected 86.4% of all homepages. - Almost half of all form inputs are not properly labelled. However, more websites are properly using headings.
- The presence of JavaScript libraries (and, counter-intuitively, the presence of ARIA) tends to correlate with a higher number of accessibility errors.
- .ru (Russian) and .cn (Chinese) websites had twice as many accessibility errors as .us (American) and .ca (Canadian) websites.
- And finally, a sign of the system working(?): web site categories that were subject to increased civil rights complaints and lawsuits in 2020 were among the most improved.
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