This year’s WebAIM Million report is out. As always, it provides an interesting insight into how well we’re doing as an industry building an accessible Web.
Sadly, the findings aren’t encouraging. The slow progress made in past years is being undone. Not only are we still failing to get the basics right, things have actually gotten worse since 2025.
Homepages are becoming more complex, and with that complexity comes reduced accessibility. In just one year, the average number of elements on a homepage has increased by 22.5%.
When we don’t take accessibility into account, we inadvertently create barriers that exclude many people from using our sites. Those excluded users are our friends, family and neighbours. They are potential customers unable to complete a purchase. We can and need to do better.
A good starting point is to review your own websites for the six most common issues highlighted by WebAIM’s report. These six account for 96% of all detected errors. Addressing these would make a meaningful difference to your users.