Accessibility Report
UK Website Accessibility
Equality Act 2010 / PSBAR 2018
543 UK websites scanned for WCAG 2.1 AA compliance under the Equality Act 2010 and Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018. 77% failed.
Sites Scanned
543
UK domains
Fail Rate
77%
418 of 543 sites
Average Score
36
out of 100
Critical Violations
46.2%
251 sites
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Accessibility Score Distribution
39.2% of UK sites scored 0-10. Only 6.4% achieved 91-100.
Top 10 Violations
Ranked by occurrence across all 543 scans.
All page content should be contained by landmarks
region
UK public sector websites must publish an accessibility statement
uk-accessibility-statement
Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds
color-contrast
Document should have one main landmark
landmark-one-main
Landmarks should have a unique role or accessible name combination
landmark-unique
Links must have discernible text
link-name
Cookie consent banners must be keyboard accessible and work with screen readers
uk-cookie-consent-accessible
All touch targets must be 24px large or leave sufficient space
target-size
Heading levels should only increase by one
heading-order
Page should contain a level-one heading
page-has-heading-one
UK Jurisdiction-Specific Findings
63.7% of sites (346 of 543) had at least one UK-specific violation.
UK public sector websites must publish an accessibility statement (SI 2018/952, Regulation 8)
uk-accessibility-statement
264
48.6% of sites
Cookie consent banners must be keyboard accessible (PECR + Equality Act 2010)
uk-cookie-consent-accessible
123
22.7% of sites
Best Performers
Worst Performers
Lighthouse Averages
Average Lighthouse scores across 542 successfully audited sites.
81
Accessibility
59
Performance
81
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