
95.9% of Websites Fail Accessibility. The Reasons Are Boring.
Every year WebAIM scans the home pages of the top one million websites. The 2026 report found that 95.9% of them had detectable WCAG failures, up from 94.8% the year before, which reverses six straight years of slow improvement. The average page carried 56.1 detected errors, a 10.1% jump in a single year. You would expect a number that ugly to have a dramatic explanation. It does not. The same











