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Last updated: October 29, 2026
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More than 1 in 4 American adults live with a disability.
Source: CDC, Disability and Health Data System (DHDS), 2022 BRFSS data.
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Nearly 70% of 2025 digital accessibility lawsuits targeted ecommerce.
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More than 5,000 ADA digital accessibility lawsuits were filed in 2025, up from more than 4,000 in 2024.
Source: UsableNet 2025 Year-End Digital Accessibility Lawsuit Report, which reviewed more than 5,000 lawsuits filed between January 1 and December 15, 2025: 3,195 in federal courts and 1,919 in New York and California state courts. The 2024 total is from the UsableNet 2025 Midyear Digital Accessibility Lawsuit Report. Both counts cover websites, mobile apps and video.
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UsableNet projects approximately 6,176 digital accessibility lawsuits for 2026, based on filings recorded through June 14.
Source: UsableNet, Inside the 2026 Midyear Numbers. This is a projection, not a count.
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95.9% of websites fail WCAG 2.2.
Source: WebAIM Million 2026.
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Higher-accessibility-score sites average 23% more organic traffic.
Source: Semrush × AccessibilityChecker.org, 2023 (847 sites). A larger 2025 Semrush study of 10,000 sites found higher-accessibility-score sites averaged 23% more organic traffic and 27% more ranking keywords. Correlational, not causal — individual results vary.
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The average ADA lawsuit costs $30K+ in combined settlement and legal fees.
Source: Accessibility.build, ADA Website Lawsuit Cost (2026).
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In 2025 the FTC ordered accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle charges that it misrepresented its overlay's ability to make websites WCAG compliant.
Source: Federal Trade Commission, final order approved April 2025.
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Shopify's conformance reports rate its checkout and Dawn theme as “partially supporting” several WCAG Level AA criteria, and disclaim any warranty.
Source: Shopify Accessibility Conformance Report, Checkout and Dawn theme.
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Shopify home pages averaged more detectable accessibility errors (75.1) than the overall average (56.1) of the top one million websites in 2026.
Source: WebAIM Million 2026.
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Low-contrast text (84%), missing alt text (53%) and missing form labels (51%) were found on the stated share of the top one million home pages in 2026.
Source: WebAIM Million 2026.
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UsableNet reported that over 1,000 businesses were sued in 2024 despite having an accessibility widget, more than 25% of cases.
Source: UsableNet, 2024 Digital Accessibility Lawsuit Report.
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In September 2026, 91 of the 360 digital accessibility lawsuits UsableNet tracked (about one in four) involved a defendant running a third-party accessibility widget.
Source: UsableNet monthly lawsuit tracker. This covers one month only.
A note on VPAT®
VPAT® (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) is a registered trademark of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI). Accessrank prepares Accessibility Conformance Reports for clients using the unmodified ITI template, in accordance with ITI’s terms of use. Use of the name does not imply endorsement by or affiliation with ITI.
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