May 23, 2022

Most common accessibility issues

The web is not accessible. That’s not new, that’s not what I learned today. But the amount of accessibility errors did surprise me.

The WebAIM report states over 50 million errors in the top one million websites.

Today I learned that all of these errors are the most basic accessibility issue, you can fix so easy:

• low text contrast,
• missing alternative text,
• empty links and buttons,
• missing form labels and missing languages.

Hidde wrote a fantastic blog post about it: https://hidde.blog/common-a11y-issues/

Greetings Marco