Accessibility errors increased 10% from 2025 to 2026

Summary

The WebAIM MillionThe 2026 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages You are here: Home > WebAIM Projects > The WebAIM Million Article Contents Introduction The Sample Detected Errors Home Page Complexity WCAG Conformance Low Contrast Text Images and Alternative Text Form Labeling Headings Regions ARIA Links Skip Links Doctypes Site Categories TLDs Languages Technologies Conclusion Introduction For the eighth consecutive year, WebAIM conducted an accessibility evaluation of the home pages for the top 1,000,000 web sites. The evaluation was conducted using the WAVE stand-alone API (with additional tools to collect site technology and category data). The results provide an overview of and insight into the current state of web accessibility for individuals with disabilities as well as trends over time. Note! Results below are from February 2026—with comparisons to, and trends from, earlier analyses in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. WebAIM can assist you in your accessibility journey by providing training, testing, and consulting and technical assistance. The Sample Site Lookup How did your home page rank in our study? Enter a web site domain below to view details. The million home page list was derived from the Tranco ranking which combines several sources of "top" web sites. Sites without home pages, pages that returned errors (404, etc.), pages with fewer than 10 HTML elements, and pages with more than 5,000 links to the same domain (for SEO purposes) were not included. Methodology The WAVE accessibility engine was used to analyze the rendered DOM (Document Object Model) of all pages after scripting and styles were applied. WAVE detects end-user accessibility barriers and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 A/AA conformance failures. All automated tools, including WAVE, have limitations—not all conformance failures can be automatically detected. Absence of detected errors does not indicate that a page is accessible or conf...