The WebAIM Million: An Annual Accessibility Analysis of the Top 1,000,000 Home Pages
- Authors
- WebAIM
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- WebAIM
- Standards Referenced
- WCAG 2.1
Summary
Annual large-scale automated accessibility evaluation of the top one million website home pages. The study consistently reveals widespread accessibility failures, with the majority of pages containing detectable WCAG conformance errors.
Key Findings
96.3% of home pages had detectable WCAG 2 failures. The most common errors were low contrast text, missing alt text for images, empty links, missing form input labels, empty buttons, and missing document language. The average number of errors per page was over 50.
Relevance to Practice
Provides essential baseline data on the state of web accessibility. Useful for demonstrating the scale of the problem to stakeholders and for benchmarking organizational progress.