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Most accessibility problems on a website aren't hard to fix. Low-contrast text. An image with no alt text. A button that doesn't tell a screen reader what it does. None of these need a rebuild or a specialist.

Every year, WebAIM scans the home pages of the top million websites and checks them against basic accessibility standards. The 2026 report found that almost 96% of the pages scanned had at least one automatically detectable accessibility failure.

What stands out even more is what the errors actually are. The same problems have topped this report for seven years in a row. These aren't new, complex edge cases; they are the same simple, repeating mistakes.

In this guide, we'll look at what those top errors actually are, why they keep making it to production, and the simple workflow habits you can use to catch them before your users do.…