Accessibility errors increased 10% from 2025 to 2026
The evaluation was conducted using the WAVE stand-alone API (with additional tools to collect site technology and category data). The results provide an overview of and insight into the current state of web accessibility for individuals with disabilities as well as trends over time. Results below are from February 2026—with comparisons to, and trends from, earlier analyses in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
- ▪The evaluation was conducted using the WAVE stand-alone API (with additional tools to collect site technology and category data).
- ▪The results provide an overview of and insight into the current state of web accessibility for individuals with disabilities as well as trends over time.
- ▪Results below are from February 2026—with comparisons to, and trends from, earlier analyses in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Webaim |
| Canonical URL | https://webaim.org/projects/million/#errors |
| Publication time | Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:41:17 -0500 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-24T06:27:06.790Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-24T06:27:06.790Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Ny7Erqxz7mCd |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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The WebAIM MillionThe 2026 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages You are here: Home > WebAIM Projects > The WebAIM Million Article Contents Introduction The Sample Methodology Detected Errors Home Page Complexity WCAG Conformance Low Contrast Text Images and Alternative Text Form Labeling Headings Regions ARIA Links Skip Links Doctypes Site Categories TLDs Languages Technologies Content Management Systems and Site Builders JavaScript Frameworks JavaScript Libraries Web Frameworks Ecommerce Platforms Advertising Networks Other Technologies Conclusion Introduction For the eighth consecutive year, WebAIM conducted an accessibility evaluation of the home pages for the top 1,000,000 web sites.
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