93.7% of Web Design Agencies' Own Websites Fail at Least One Accessibility Check

    93.7% of US web design and marketing agency homepages fail at least one of Google's automated accessibility checks, and 45.3% score below 90 out of 100, the line Google treats as a pass. The most common failure, text too faint to read against its background, shows up on 57.1% of agency homepages.

    Share of agency homepages by failed accessibility check
    Text too faint against its background (color contrast)
    57.1%
    Links with no readable name
    45.3%
    Headings out of order
    44.4%
    No main content area marked
    38.7%
    Tap targets too small or too close together
    17.4%
    Images with no alt text
    15%
    Zooming blocked on phones
    14.4%
    Buttons with no readable name
    11.1%
    Embedded frames with no title
    7.2%
    No page language set
    6.9%
    Links marked by color alone
    6%
    Lists coded incorrectly
    4.5%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 333 US web design and marketing agency homepages · Google Lighthouse accessibility scores, September 2026

    Share of agency homepages by accessibility score
    100
    6.3%
    90 to 99
    48.3%
    80 to 89
    30.6%
    70 to 79
    10.5%
    Below 70
    4.2%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 333 US web design and marketing agency homepages · Google Lighthouse accessibility scores, September 2026

    Source: 93.7% of Web Design Agencies' Own Websites Fail at Least One Accessibility Check - Suff Digital