Silktide runs one of the world’s largest public accessibility benchmarks: the Silktide Index. We score thousands of organizations against WCAG. The best government sites clear 98 out of 100 (hello, Illinois). Plenty land in the teens.
A handful don’t load well enough to score at all. We’ve been scanning government websites every month for years.
We took the 15 most common WCAG 2.1 AA failures we see across US government website and put them here. And we mean it literally: every failure in this report is part of the WCAG 2.1 AA standard. No “best practice.” No “where the puck is heading.” Just the legal floor, ranked by how often you’re actually tripping over it. Think of it less as a scolding and more as the to-do list you’d have written yourself, if you weren’t doing four jobs.
Curious where you actually stand?
We’ve already scored your agency (and thousands of its peers) in the Silktide Index. It’s public, and it’s free. Where do you rank? Go find out before someone else points it out for you.