The webaim million report
The WebAIM Million report represents an in-depth assessment of the accessibility of home pages for the top 1,000,000 websites. This evaluation employs the WAVE stand-alone API with additional tools to identify accessibility barriers and WCAG conformance failures. Additionally, the report offers valuable insights into the current state of web accessibility and highlights trends over time.
The number of detected errors increased notably (13.6%) since the 2023 analysis which found 50 errors/page. The WebAIM Million
Highlights
- Detected Errors
Across the one million home pages analyzed, a whopping 56,791,260 distinct accessibility errors were detected. On average, this translates to 56.9 errors per page. - Home Page Complexity
The complexity of home pages has increased significantly. In just 12 months, the average number of page elements rose from an average of 1,050 elements in February 2023 to an average of 1,173 elements per home page in February 2024—a 11.8% increase (an increase of 50% in the last 5 years). - WCAG Conformance
95.9% of home pages had detected WCAG 2 failures. This improved slightly from 96.3% in 2023 (a decrease of only 1.9% in the last 5 years). - Most common accessibility errors
(Note: These errors account for 96.4% of all errors detected)
- Low contrast text
- Missing alternative text for images
- Missing form inputs labels
- Empty links
- Empty buttons
- Missing document language
- ARIA
Aria usage increased 15% in one year and has more than quadrupled since 2019, but it also correlated with higher detected errors.
👉 Read full report: 2024 WebAIM Million
You might be interested in:
- How to Meet WCAG 2.1 (Quick Reference) (W3C)
- Accessibility Principles (W3C)
- Accessibility Tutorials (W3C)
- Introduction to Web Accessibility – edX
- WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools (WebAIm)
- Link Contrast Checker (WebAim)
- Screen Reader User Survey #10 Results (WebAim)
- Accessibility, Usability, and Inclusion (W3C)
The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops standards and support materials to help you understand and implement accessibility. - Validators and tools (W3C)
- W3Cx MOOCs – Free online courses