Guides
Accessibility, explained honestly
How to find and fix what's actually broken on your site. Sorted by platform and by WCAG issue, with real numbers behind it.
Comparison
- An honest accessiBe alternative If you are weighing accessiBe, it helps to know what an overlay actually does, and what it does not. Paste you...
- An honest AudioEye alternative AudioEye pairs an accessibility toolbar with managed remediation. If you want to see your actual issues first,...
- An axe DevTools alternative axe DevTools is excellent, and this runs the same engine under the hood. The honest difference is the packagin...
- A Lighthouse accessibility alternative Lighthouse gives you a single accessibility score. If you want the underlying failures mapped to WCAG, and a r...
- A Pa11y alternative Pa11y is a solid open-source accessibility CLI. This covers similar ground with a hosted scan, a shareable rep...
- An honest UserWay alternative UserWay is an accessibility overlay, the same category of widget as accessiBe. Paste your URL below for a real...
- A WAVE accessibility alternative WAVE is a great visual evaluation tool. This takes a different approach: axe-core, a report you can share, and...
Compliance
- ADA website compliance There is no official "ADA certified" badge for a website. In practice, ADA website compliance means your site...
- California web accessibility and the Unruh Act California generates more web accessibility demand letters than any other state, and it is not because Califor...
- European Accessibility Act (EAA) The European Accessibility Act (EAA) brings binding accessibility requirements to e-commerce, banking, transpo...
- Section 508 compliance Section 508 requires US federal agencies, and the vendors who sell to them, to make their digital content acce...
- VPAT and the accessibility conformance report If a customer has asked you for a VPAT, they are asking you to document how your product measures against acce...
Engineering
Guide
How to fix
- How to fix buttons with no accessible name A button a screen reader announces as just "button" is a dead end. This is common with icon-only buttons. Here...
- How to fix color contrast issues Low-contrast text is the most common accessibility failure on the web. It shows up on more than four in five h...
- Fixing contrast that only breaks when you tab to it A button reads perfectly well sitting on the page. You press Tab, it takes focus, and the text all but disappe...
- How to fix form fields without labels A placeholder is not a label. When a field has no associated label, screen-reader users hear "edit text" with...
- How to fix skipped heading levels Screen-reader users navigate by headings, so a structure that jumps from h1 to h3 is confusing. The fix is log...
- How to fix missing image alt text Missing alternative text appears on more than half of all home pages. It is also one of the easiest issues to...
- How to fix links with no discernible text A link a screen reader announces as just "link" tells the user nothing. This usually happens with icon-only li...
- Font size and accessibility The most common question about accessible type is "what is the minimum font size?" WCAG does not answer it, be...
- Keyboard navigation accessibility Keyboard access is the criterion most often broken by custom UI and the easiest to test yourself. Put your mou...
Platform
Research
- The state of bank and financial website accessibility, 2026 Financial services is one of the most frequently sued sectors in US web-accessibility litigation, so its sites...
- The state of government website accessibility, 2026 Federal agencies are the one group legally required to make their websites accessible: Section 508 of the Reha...
- The state of hospital website accessibility, 2026 We ran the same automated accessibility scan we used on online stores over the homepages of 99 US health syste...
- The state of online store accessibility, 2026 We ran an automated accessibility scan over the homepages of 90 popular online stores to see how the storefron...
- Web accessibility by industry, 2026 Over 2026 we scanned the homepages of hundreds of well-known US websites for accessibility, one sector at a ti...