Assessment of eAccessibility
Overview of performance
This project conducted automatic evaluation of the accessibility of the selected services supported by manual evaluation across a sample. Consistent with similar studies that have taken place, the results found relatively few sites that achieve even Limited Pass Level A conformance with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0).
Chart 2 Conformance with Level A (WCAG 1.0)
- 3% of the websites assessed achieve Level A conformance, passing the full suite of both automated and manual checks.
- A further 10% of services fully passed all the automated checks, but showed a material failure on one or more of the manual checks – referred to here as a Limited Pass Level A.
- Another 17% of sites failed one or more of the automated checks, but this failure was limited in extent or scope – referred to as a Marginal Fail Level A.
- Finally, the remaining 70% of sites showed relatively pervasive failure against one or more of the automated checks – referred to as a Fail Level A.
