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Accessibility Map of US Websites

Every point is a website we tested ourselves. The municipal layer shows city, county and state websites traversed with a real keyboard, page by page. The commercial layer shows shops, cafés, clinics and schools checked with axe-core. Click a point to open the full report for that site and its standing among sites in the same state.

Keyboard traversal: show

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State ranking: municipal websites

Share of measured pages where a keyboard-only user reached the goal with a visible focus ring and labelled fields. The denominator is measured pages in the state, not all sites. States with fewer than 40 measured pages are not shown.

#StateUsablePages: reached / measuredSites

How to read this map

These are two different instruments. The keyboard traversal asks whether a person can reach the goal using only Tab. The axe-core check counts rule violations in the code. The two layers do not add up, which is why the map never mixes them.

A verdict describes one page at one moment. “Did not open” is not always the site’s fault: we re-measured part of those pages and published a corrected copy of the dataset.

Standing in the state is not a score we invented; it compares the site with other measured sites in the same state, using the same instrument.

The map counts organisations and sites — one dot each. The research pages count log rows, so the commercial “measured” figure on the map is a few dozen lower: those are repeat rows for the same organisation.

Government websites research · Commercial websites research · Open data

Author: Maksim Galatin. Self-funded research; the author provides accessibility services; nobody paid to be included or excluded.

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