Website accessibility loserboard
This page lets you compare the amount of accessibility issues in NZ Govt websites. Data is from NZ Govt's official figures, as part of the CWAC monitoring programme.
Accessibility issues are caused when a website breaks the technical accessibility rules (WCAG) that assistive technologies and disabled people rely on. For example, a missing image description, an unlabelled form field, or a button a screen reader can't identify. Accessibility issues may make it difficult or impossible for disabled people to use a website. Accessibility tests are by axe-core.
Note: This is based on automated test data, which covers around 20% of all accessibility issues. Manual testing is required to ensure accessibility for disabled people.
Websites: June 2026 figures
- Govt mean avg.
- 2.25 issues per page
- Median website
- 0.50 issues per page
- With issues
- 376 of 489 76.9% of total
- Govt agencies
- 45
- Websites scanned
- 489
- Pages scanned
- 110,301
- Scan coverage
- 96.8%
Govt-wide trend
Mean avg. issues per page across every measured website, by quarter.
Rankings
Worst-performing websites first — high issues per page (issues/page) are bad.