WebAIM Million results show that shopping sites have worst accessibility
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WebAIM published results (opens in new window) of their seventh automated accessibility evaluation of the home pages for the top one million web sites across the globe. Automatic accessibility testing is perfect for such large scale testing, but we need to understand that automatic tools only cover parts of relevant Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and their success criteria, so we only get a partial state of (in)accessibility that is biased based on the capabilities.
Nevertheless, such large scale tests presents a perfect trend analysis opportunities and seeing less WCAG failures year after year is a good sign. Especially when we also see that page complexity rises at the same time. Basically, if page complexity weren’t rising – we would most probably see that there were even less automatically detected accessibility issues on them.
Shopping websites are almost 40% less accessible than other websites
According to Artificial Intelligence (AI) that provided the site category, at least. I am not familiar with the details and as far as I see we need to have some error margin with the numbers provided by AI, but AI seems [...]