This week, I tried to find statistics showing the state of\nweb accessibility in the world \u2013 how accessible are websites right now, and if\nthey aren\u2019t, why not? I initially had\ntrouble finding good data on this subject, and when I did finally find a\nsufficiently recent article, it acknowledged that \u201cThere still is a lack of WA\nawareness and a paucity of scholarly research to discover the factors that\nmight hinder WA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first article I found was called \u201cA Delphi Study of Factors Hindering Web Accessibility For Persons With Disabilities\u201d, published in The Journal of Computer Information Systems in 2015. It surveyed 30 professional website developers with knowledge of accessibility, and asked them to name the things that most hindered the field of web accessibility. Here are the top five factors they listed, with Factor 1 being the biggest, and Factor 5 being the smallest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also found a 2015 article in EContent Magazine (a publication of Information Today) which quotes a web accessibility consultant named Karl Groves.\u00a0 Rove states that he finds an average of 72 accessibility issues per-page on the web using automated software that discovers these kinds of problems.\u00a0 The article acknowledges that the software Rove uses can\u2019t detect every single accessibility issue, so that number could be even higher in reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The final statistic I was able to find came from law firm\nSeyfarth Shaw. They found an increase in\nfederal web-accessibility lawsuits from 2017 to 2018, with 814 lawsuits filed\nin 2017, and 2258 lawsuits in 2018. Much\nlike with Rove\u2019s \u201c72\u201d statistic, these numbers were found using automated means\n\u2013 searching certain keywords within data from the Courthouse News\nServices. The authors acknowledge that some\nlawsuits may not have shown up due to their descriptions not containing the\nproper keywords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These three statistics seem to paint a bleak picture on the\nstate of web accessibility, and definitely explain why the subject is often\ntreated as something unfairly ignored by people. I will definitely cite statistics like these\nin the first video I make for this series, which will explain what web accessibility\nis and why it is important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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