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Web accessibility statistics 2026

The figures gathered here can be used as they stand. Each one states what it measures, on which sample, and where it comes from. Our own measurement opens the page because it exists nowhere else, and the sector references put it in perspective.

Figures last verified : 2026-08-18

Our measurement: French e-commerce

Inclaria study, run on a panel of major French e-commerce retailers. The two waves cover distinct samples and are never merged: each percentage stands on its own sample.

• 94,5 %

  of analysed sites (52 of 55) show at least one critical or serious non-conformity

  Sample : 55 / 102 · Inclaria, 2026-07-10

• 70,9 %

  show at least one critical non-conformity, the most severe level

  Sample : 55 / 102 · Inclaria, 2026-07-10

• 52,6/100

  average accessibility score of the analysed homepages (median: 55)

  Sample : 55 / 102 · Inclaria, 2026-07-10

• 3 / 55

  sites only pass the analysis with no critical or serious defect

  Sample : 55 / 102 · Inclaria, 2026-07-10

• 34

  failing elements on average per homepage (545 critical and 1,345 serious in total)

  Sample : 55 / 102 · Inclaria, 2026-07-10

• 47 / 102

  panel sites refused the automated browser or returned an error (excluded from results)

  Sample : 55 / 102 · Inclaria, 2026-07-10

Method: deterministic automated scan with axe-core, against EN 301 549 and WCAG 2, on each site's home page.

Second wave

Same study, distinct panel. The figures below stand on this second sample and are never added to the first.

• 88,2 %

  of analysed sites (15 of 17) show at least one critical or serious non-conformity

  Sample : 17 / 18 · Inclaria, 2026-08-11

• 52,9 %

  show at least one critical non-conformity, the most severe level (9 of 17 sites)

  Sample : 17 / 18 · Inclaria, 2026-08-11

• 55,9/100

  average accessibility score of the analysed homepages (median: 55, identical to wave 1)

  Sample : 17 / 18 · Inclaria, 2026-08-11

• 2 / 17

  sites only pass the analysis with no critical or serious defect

  Sample : 17 / 18 · Inclaria, 2026-08-11

• 33

  failing elements on average per homepage (75 critical and 482 serious in total)

  Sample : 17 / 18 · Inclaria, 2026-08-11

• 1 / 18

  panel site refused the automated browser (excluded from results)

  Sample : 17 / 18 · Inclaria, 2026-08-11

The sector reference: the WebAIM Million

Annual analysis of the world's one million most visited home pages, published by WebAIM. It is the broadest measurement available, and the only one that allows year-on-year comparison.

• 95,9 %

  of analysed home pages have automatically detectable WCAG 2 failures

  Sample : 1,000,000 home pages, February 2026 (94.8% in 2025) · WebAIM Million

• 56,1

  detected errors on average per home page, up 10.1% year on year

  Sample : 1,000,000 home pages, February 2026 (51 errors in 2025) · WebAIM Million

• 83,9 %

  of analysed home pages have low contrast text, the most widespread defect

  Sample : 1,000,000 home pages, February 2026 · WebAIM Million

• 96 %

  of detected errors fall into just six categories, all of them fixable

  Sample : 1,000,000 home pages, February 2026 · WebAIM Million

The European legal framework

Obligations are a matter of law, not statistics. The reference text is the European directive, cited here in its official version.

• 28 juin 2025

  date from which the European Accessibility Act applies to the digital services concerned

  Sample : official European Union text, 27 member states · Directive (UE) 2019/882, EUR-Lex

How to read these figures

An automated scan detects only part of the non-conformities: those that are mechanically verifiable. A site with no detected error is therefore not a conformant site, and a human audit remains necessary to decide. Conversely, a detected error is a real error. These figures give a floor, never a ceiling.

Sources

Every third-party figure was taken from the page of its originating organisation, on the date shown. None is repeated from an intermediate citation.

• WebAIM Million (checked on 2026-08-18)
• Directive (UE) 2019/882, EUR-Lex (checked on 2026-08-18)

History

This page is updated every year with the new editions of its sources. Previous years' figures remain visible next to the current ones, in the scope column, so that the trend stays readable without changing address.