CWAC Loserboard

A leaderboard? Nah. A loserboard for NZ Govt automated accessibility data

Web accessibility is about ensuring websites work for disabled people. Every quarter, the NZ Government releases automated accessibility test data for most of its public websites, as part of the CWAC monitoring programme.

Note: automated accessibility tests find ~20% of issues.
Manual audits are required to detect the rest.

Website accessibility loserboard

A closer look at accessibility

The charts below track one measure across every website and agency, quarter by quarter: Avg. issues per page for each website/agency, scanned with axe-core.

The spread of scores each quarter

One dot per website, one row per quarter, showing its average issues per page. The yellow line marks the median. Lower values magnified. See the full website loserboard

How every website has changed

One line per website, showing its average issues per page. Lower values magnified. See the full website loserboard

How every agency has changed

One line per agency, showing its average issues per page. Lower values magnified. See the full agency loserboard

How many websites at each score

Jun 26. Websites grouped by avg. issues per page.

Percentage of websites with no automatically detectable issues

The goal is 100% (which is actually an absurdly low bar). Automated tests detect about 20% of accessibility issues, so hitting 100% is a fairly... moderate goal 🫪

When will all government websites have 0 issues?

The percentage of websites with zero issues has been increasing by roughly 11.2 percentage points a year. The dashed line continues that pace until it reaches 100%. This is a prediction that assumes websites keep improving at the same pace, which is currently supported by an R2 of 0.97.

🥳 All govt sites are projected to pass automated accessibility tests on May 2033

Method: ordinary least squares fitted to n = 6 quarterly percentages of websites with zero issues; slope 11.2 percentage points/year; R² = 0.97.