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Annual accessibility analysis of the top 1 million home pages (webaim.org)
3 points by darekkay on May 4, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Some of my thoughts:

- "56% of the 3.4 million form inputs identified were unlabeled." - I would expect _some_ inputs unlabelled, but over half of all inputs on the internet? Crazy.

- "On average, home pages had 36 distinct instances of low-contrast text." - I'm still waiting for the "light gray on white" trend to decline. I consider myself having a very good eye sight, but even I struggle looking at my mobile phone on a sunny day.

- "Home pages with ARIA present averaged 60% more errors than those without." - Actually not _that_ surprising, because it takes a lot of time/experience to get more complex components fully accessible. My go-to resource: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.2/

- All those issues were determined automatically. This means: 1. Those errors are avoidable even without in-depth a11y knowledge 2. The number of inaccessible websites is _even higher_. :(




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