Evinced Announces ‘Evinced 500’ List
In a press release issued last week, Palo Alto-based web accessibility company Evinced announced its Evinced 500. Evinced described the list as "a new analysis assessing accessibility for the largest 500 enterprises in the U.S. (the Fortune 500).”
Evinced’s news was coincident with Global Accessibility Awareness Day last Thursday.
“The analysis found that Fortune 500 company websites averaged almost 20 accessibility issues per homepage,” Evinced wrote. “While this is a significant number, it does suggest that larger enterprises are performing better on accessibility than smaller ones. A widely cited annual study of one million website homepages, The WebAIM Million Report, most recently found 56 accessibility errors per homepage.”
Amongst the key findings by Evinced include 90% of the homepages on the websites of Fortunate 500 companies contained at least one accessibility issue, as well as financial services companies showing “some of the strongest accessibility performance among sectors analyzed.” By contrast, Evinced noted tech companies “showed some of the highest rates of accessibility problems.” The company said its findings “reinforce how accessibility maturity often correlates with organizational governance, operational rigor, and investment in modern development practices.”
More detailed information on Evinced’s Fortune 500 can be found in this blog post.
“This is still just the beginning of the accessibility story on websites," Navin Thadani, co-founder and CEO of Evinced, said in a statement for the press release. “Homepages are often the easiest pages to make accessible because they are static and heavily reviewed. The bigger challenge and the bigger opportunity lies deeper inside authenticated workflows, applications, dashboards, and transactional experiences where accessibility problems become harder to detect and more impactful for users. That’s where automation and developer-first tooling become essential.”
I’ve covered Evinced often over the years. I last spoke with Thadani in December 2024.
In related news, Mike Paciello, chief accessibility officer at AudioEye, wrote a post last week about the state of accessibility on the web. He said in part, although 15 years of Global Accessibility Awareness Day ought to be cause for celebration, this year feels like “a regression,” pointing to the WebAIM Million report that Evinced also referenced.
I interviewed Paciello in January 2024 when he first took the job at AudioEye.
