Alexa 100 Accessibility Update #2
The WebAIM Million report shows that there are significant and pervasive accessibility issues on the web. Many have inquired if the state of accessibility is getting better or worse. We will re-analyze these 1 million home pages in the future to track changes.
In the meantime, we do have some small-scale data from the Alexa Top 100 home pages that were first analyzed using WAVE for accessibility issues in 2011 and then again in 2017. A re-analysis in 2019 of these same 100 pages (most of which are still very popular) shows the following errors (excluding WCAG contrast errors) over time.
Home Page Data
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Site Name
2019 Errors
2017 Errors
2011 Errors
myspace.com
160
158
10
washingtonpost.com
103
111
43
tmz.com
100
88
30
slickdeals.net
97
77
306
imgur.com
97
25
19
reddit.com
94
61
24
espn.com
89
238
18
dailymail.co.uk
85
59
22
kohls.com
84
117
51
latimes.com
74
34
67
answers.com
63
21
61
go.com
58
47
44
aol.com
56
177
15
homedepot.com
54
17
90
yelp.com
46
54
3
match.com
46
43
26
usatoday.com
44
208
105
vimeo.com
41
42
3
pof.com
41
36
17
godaddy.com
40
33
16
jcpenney.com
39
30
1
foxsports.com
34
32
19
sears.com
33
36
15
imdb.com
31
42
20
foxnews.com
31
49
220
cnet.com
30
53
20
salesforce.com
29
37
22
barnesandnoble.com
28
21
29
nytimes.com
27
96
58
cnn.com
26
27
89
youtube.com
25
48
8
photobucket.com
23
23
18
shopathome.com
22
22
8
wellsfargo.com
22
7
2
msn.com
21
60
5
newegg.com
19
23
6
americanexpress.com
19
13
4
huffingtonpost.com
18
123
9
allrecipes.com
18
119
15
yahoo.com
16
13
9
drudgereport.com
16
8
21
about.com
14
71
26
coupons.com
13
16
35
twitter.com
12
71
5
pandora.com
12
28
44
ebay.com
12
5
12
bing.com
11
47
0
weather.com
11
5
28
adobe.com
11
15
2
warriorforum.com
10
21
16
indeed.com
9
3
2
swagbucks.com
9
12
33
cbssports.com
9
9
17
tumblr.com
9
9
10
gap.com
8
23
22
ehow.com
7
334
1
macys.com
7
88
2
comcast.net
7
11
2
usps.com
7
3
5
toysrus.com
6
47
30
etsy.com
6
7
1
craigslist.org
6
6
2
bankofamerica.com
6
4
1
amazon.com
5
76
6
hulu.com
4
115
50
netflix.com
4
10
1
mywebsearch.com
4
16
1
walmart.com
4
0
29
att.com
3
16
30
verizonwireless.com
3
21
2
chase.com
3
4
51
pinterest.com
3
4
2
bestbuy.com
3
11
6
bbc.co.uk
3
2
21
target.com
3
14
12
facebook.com
3
14
8
reference.com
2
10
9
ask.com
2
3
11
google.com
2
5
6
stumbleupon.com
2
5
6
nfl.com
1
73
107
fedex.com
1
24
23
capitalone.com
1
16
55
groupon.com
1
3
11
live.com
1
2
5
flickr.com
1
1
25
apple.com
1
1
0
linkedin.com
1
5
18
ups.com
1
55
24
wsj.com
0
33
16
pch.com
0
57
0
constantcontact.com
0
12
28
wordpress.com
0
14
8
paypal.com
0
5
3
rr.com
0
12
39
wordpress.org
0
5
1
blogspot.com
0
5
0
wikipedia.org
0
3
1
microsoft.com
0
2
11
thepiratebay.org
0
0
2
Analysis
The average number of detectable non-contrast errors increased significantly from 25 in 2011 to 40 in 2017. However, the average number of errors has since decreased to 23 today. The average number of contrast errors per home page in 2017 was 70, but is 33 today.
This suggests notable improvement since 2017. Regardless, these home pages still average 56 detectable errors each (the average across the WebAIM Million was nearly 60 errors per [...]