State of Accessibility — 2026 edition

How the report is built

We pull from public, citable sources only — WebAIM Million, Seyfarth Shaw ADA Title III Lawsuit Tracker, the WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey, the WHO disability fact sheets, the WAI test methodology, Forrester Wave publications, Deque industry reports, and primary regulator documents (DOJ rule texts, EAA national transpositions, FCC CVAA reports).

Audit-data telemetry adds AccessivePath's own measurements — aggregated, anonymised, never per-customer. We publish methodology disclosures alongside the report so the data is independently verifiable.

Headline findings (2026 edition)

• Approximately 95.9% of top one-million home pages have detectable WCAG failures (WebAIM Million 2024).
• ADA Title III web-accessibility lawsuit filings continued to grow year-over-year, with California and New York jurisdictions concentrated at the top.
• EAA enforcement (28 June 2025) is now active across all 27 EU member states; penalty enforcement varies widely by member state.
• The 25–30% automation ceiling for WCAG coverage holds; the remaining 70% continues to require manual review.

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PDF of the full 2026 report, with methodology disclosures and source-data appendices, available on request — email founders@accessivepath.com.