{"id":306501,"date":"2020-04-08T07:53:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?p=306501"},"modified":"2020-04-08T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T15:32:07","slug":"the-webaim-million-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/the-webaim-million-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"The WebAIM Million\u2014Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This report made a big splash last year. It&#8217;s a large chunk of research that shows just how terribly the web does with accessibility. It&#8217;s been updated this year and (drumroll&#8230;) we got a little worse. I&#8217;ll use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webaxe.org\/the-webaim-million-updated\/\" rel=\"noopener\">their<\/a> blockquote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The number of errors increased 2.1% between February 2019 and February 2020.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>From the choir:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over the last year websites got **checks notes** LESS accessible?!?1 Jesus, my dudes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zvwb2wQxsH\">https:\/\/t.co\/zvwb2wQxsH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dave Rupert (@davatron5000) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davatron5000\/status\/1247179071890640896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">April 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201c56% of the 3.4 million form inputs identified were unlabeled.\u201d<br><br>aw come on<\/p>&mdash; Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachleat\/status\/1247238231277649923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">April 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I wonder if Chrome (at least) could be more aggressive about this \u2014 running an a11y test in the background after load and printing legit console errors on findings. People get v uppity about those, I\u2019ve noticed \ud83d\ude43. \/cc <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slightlylate?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">@slightlylate<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Monica Dinculescu (@notwaldorf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/notwaldorf\/status\/1247242609216458753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">April 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/beep\/status\/1247180523090448386\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">the good news is that we&#39;re not facing any broad crises in which lots of vulnerable people are more reliant than usual on digita&#8211;<br><br>ahhhhhhhh fuck<\/p>&mdash; Actually, (@eaton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eaton\/status\/1247180982685483008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">April 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Accessibility?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">#Accessibility<\/a><br>The WebAIM report is out and it&#39;s apparently getting worse. Seriously, it&#39;s about time we start making the web more accessible, people rely now more than even on a lot of online services for security, health, information, etc.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7n0zxtUuyZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/7n0zxtUuyZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Stef Walter (@WalterStephanie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterStephanie\/status\/1247422623392415746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">April 7, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Web accessibility is getting statistically worse. This is going to keep happening \u2013 and we\u2019re going to keep being surprised about it \u2013 until we get honest about ableism. These cold, hard numbers are a human problem. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gplKhUKQLy\">https:\/\/t.co\/gplKhUKQLy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; EJ Mason (@codeability) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/codeability\/status\/1247424838232227840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">April 7, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of me thinks: it&#8217;s time for browsers to step up and auto-fix the things they can. But I also think that&#8217;s dangerous territory. AMP is a browser vendor&#8217;s version of &#8220;enough is enough&#8221; with poor web performance and I&#8217;m not loving how that&#8217;s turned out to date. That said, evangelism doesn&#8217;t seem to be working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You<\/em> can fix <em>your<\/em> site though. My favorite tool is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deque.com\/axe\/\" rel=\"noopener\">axe<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report made a big splash last year. It&#8217;s a large chunk of research that shows just how terribly the web does with accessibility. It&#8217;s been updated this year and (drumroll&#8230;) we got a little worse. 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