Slovenian Accessibility Awareness Day - Preliminary (!) Results for 2021 - State of Accessibility in Slovenia

Preliminary results done, reporting in progress

I am happy to report that I have succeeded in the auditing of 1311 distinct webpages. It will now take some time to analyze the data and generate suitable reports.

Report updates:

23th of May 2021 - added table overview of overall WCAG level A and AA errors
22th of May 2021 - initial texts

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WCAG errors on level A and AA for all 1311 distinct webpages:
WCAG success criteria	WCAG level	Occurance
4.1.2 Name, Role, Value	A	1218
1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum)	AA	1185
2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context)	A	1121
1.1.1 Non-text Content	A	598
1.3.1 Info and Relationships	A	549
4.1.1 Parsing	A	547
2.4.1 Bypass Blocks	A	261
3.1.1 Language of Page	A	191
2.1.1 Keyboard	A	31
2.4.2 Page Titled	A	8
2.2.1 Timing Adjustable	A	7
1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose	AA	4
3.1.2 Language of Parts	AA	3
2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide	A	3
1.4.12 Text Spacing	AA	2
3.3.2 Labels or Instructions	A	1
2.5.3 Label in Name	A	1

Overview table description and comments

We only took WCAG tests on level A and AA.

High occurance of WCAG 4.1.2 (Name, Role and Value) is probably caused by our sampling strategy that included quite a lot of forms, as forms use to add a lot of complexity.
1.4.3 Contrast (minumum) adheres to general consent based on WebAIM's yearly reviews and also the usage of automatic tools that are pretty effective when detecting this specific result.
2.4.4 Link purpose (In context) reveals that there are a lot of links that include same text. Try to imagine standard "Read more" link being used for different locations.
1.1.1 is the standard missing alternative texts issue, most commonly found on images missing alt attribute. Also quite a standard error but seems like Search Engine Optimization strategies help to promote it's usage.

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Introduction and motivation

Global Accessibility Awareness Day just rounded ten years of it's existence and I've wanted to add my share to the accessibility awareness of my motherland - Slovenia. As I try to focus more on web accessibility in my life I wanted to investigate the state of web accessibility on a scale.

It is a known fact that Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) with it's success criteria offer the best methodologies to evaluate basic accessibility known today, but at the same time only a part of them can be tested with automatic tools. It is nevertheless possible to catch some technical barriers that can indicate online barriers, so it is still worth investing in automatic auditing, especially on a large scale.

My main inspiration was the WebAIM's Million pages accessibility audit and I wanted to do something similar on webpages that have some impact for Slovenia. Therefore I manually selected 1311 webpages from different sectors and categories and audited their accessibility and other related metrics.

Final results allow us to get a partial overview on the state of web accessibility for the pages with potentially big impact for the population.

Scope definition - how did I choose the webpages that are included in the test

I was not able to find a dataset with thousands of most visited web pages in Slovenia, so I had to rely on different public lists and different search engine results. Quite a lot of manual work but I was able to collect 1311 webpages that cover quite wide spectrum.

Besides searching manually and using public registries I also used some online lists and resources: