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10,184 sites in the Index, last scanned August 2, 2026.… days to April 26, 2027… days to April 26, 2028

ADA Title II

The CivicBinder Municipal Web Accessibility Index

73.2% of 10,184 scanned local-government .gov websites have serious or critical WCAG 2.1 AA failures on their homepage, ahead of the ADA Title II deadlines of April 26, 2027 (communities of 50,000+) and April 26, 2028 (smaller communities and special districts).

Last verified

Sites scanned
10,184
Full dataset (CSV)
Serious or critical failures
73.2% of scanned homepages
Full dataset (CSV)
Deadline, population 50,000+
April 26, 2027
ADA.gov
Deadline, under 50,000 and special districts
April 26, 2028
ADA.gov
Standard
WCAG 2.1 Level AA
W3C
License
CC BY 4.0 — free to cite with attribution
Creative Commons

What this Index measures

Under the Department of Justice’s Title II web accessibility rule, public entities serving 50,000 or more people must conform to WCAG 2.1 AA by April 26, 2027; smaller entities and special districts by April 26, 2028. The Index scans the live homepage of every US local-government .gov website we can enumerate, runs the WCAG 2.0/2.1 A and AA rule set — the standard the DOJ rule references — and grades each site A through F on the count of serious and critical failures found. Every graded site gets its own report page, and the whole dataset is downloadable below under CC BY 4.0.

By deadline tier

Title II deadlineSites scannedWith serious or critical failures
April 26, 20271,249860 (68.9%)
April 26, 20288,9356,595 (73.8%)

Grade distribution across all 10,184 scanned sites: 2729 A · 2501 B · 2988 C · 1327 D · 639 F. The grade formula is in the methodology below.

State by state

StateScannedFailingLowest-graded sites
??5100%Uintah County Government (D) · City of Jefferson City (D) · County of Cameron (B)
AK2075%City of Aleknagik (F) · City of Unalaska (D) · Fairbanks North Star Borough (C)
AL16571.5%City of Opelika (F) · Marshall County Commission (F) · City of Phenix City, AL (F)
AR21361%City of Benton (F) · City of Yellville (F) · City of Centerton (F)
AZ11866.9%City of Prescott (F) · Town of Fountain Hills (F) · Gila County (F)
CA50071.2%City of San Marino (F) · City of Pleasanton (F) · City of Carson, California (F)
CO16569.7%Town of Erie (F) · Garfield County (F) · City of Brighton (D)
CT13068.5%Town of West Hartford (F) · Town of Stafford (F) · Town of Prospect (F)
DC1100%Office of the People's Counsel (C)
DE1580%City of Harrington (F) · City of Dover (D) · Town of Dewey Beach (D)
FL32473.1%North Bay Village (F) · City of Clewiston (F) · Flagler County Tax Collector (F)
GA25574.5%City of Woodstock (F) · City of East Point (F) · Troup County Board of Commissioners (F)
HI633.3%Office of the County Clerk, County of Maui (D) · County of Hawaii (B)
IA12065.8%County of Marion, Iowa (F) · Poweshiek County (D) · Cass County Iowa (D)
ID6173.8%City of Idaho Falls (F) · City of Rigby (F) · Eagle Fire Protection District (F)
IL32770.3%Village Of Brookfield (F) · Madison County Government (F) · City of Kankakee IL (F)
IN9475.5%Clinton County Government (F) · Town of Bourbon (F) · Town of Topeka (F)
KS13068.5%City of St George (F) · City of Gardner (F) · Geary County Sheriff (F)
KY16981.7%City of Tompkinsville (F) · City of Coal Run Village (F) · The City of Ashland, KY (F)
LA6172.1%Caddo Parish Commission (F) · Office of the Independent Police Monitor (F) · Town of Sorrento, Louisiana (D)
MA27869.1%City of Greenfield (F) · Town of Groton (F) · Town of Nantucket (F)
MD8868.2%Town of Cheverly (F) · Talbot County Government (F) · Town of Edmonston (F)
ME10967%Town of Winslow (F) · Town of Lamoine (F) · Town of Kennebunkport (D)
MI46181.8%City of Eastpointe (F) · Plymouth Charter Township (F) · Calhoun County, Michigan (F)
MN49367.3%Cook County Minnesota (F) · City of Victoria (F) · City of Paynesville (F)
MO24870.2%City of Lawson, MO (F) · City of Herculaneum (F) · City of Maplewood, Missouri (F)
MS7777.9%Lamar County Mississippi (F) · Stone County Board of Supervisors (F) · City of Purvis (D)
MT7668.4%Flathead Reservation Water Management Board (F) · Park Count MT (F) · Sweet Grass County (F)
NC23975.3%Lee County Government (F) · Town of Mooresville (F) · County of Surry (F)
ND3565.7%Rolette County (D) · Berthold North Dakota (D) · City of Grafton (D)
NE11468.4%City of Norfolk Nebraska (F) · City of Louisville, NE (F) · Madison County Sheriff (F)
NH16765.3%Gilford Police Department (F) · Town of Gilford, NH (F) · Town of Eaton (F)
NJ19085.3%City of Hoboken (F) · City of South Amboy (F) · Borough of Dumont (F)
NM7183.1%City of Hobbs (F) · Lincoln County (F) · City of Portales (F)
NV2075%Pershing County (F) · County of Elko (D) · City of Mesquite (C)
NY117477%Town of Niskayuna (F) · Town of Mendon (F) · Town of Esopus (F)
OH42271.8%City of Akron, Ohio (F) · City of Dublin, Ohio (F) · GRAND RIVER VILLAGE (F)
OK12672.2%City of Clinton, OK (F) · Osage County Sheriffs Office (F) · City of Wewoka (D)
OR19369.4%Benton County - Oregon (F) · City of Rockaway Beach (F) · City of Wilsonville (F)
PA27173.8%City of Bethlehem (F) · Greenfield Township (F) · Wyoming County (F)
PR3100%Conexion Laboral Area Local Noreste (D) · Municipal Government of Arroyo (C) · Municipality of Penuelas (B)
RI4475%Town of Glocester (F) · City of Newport (F) · The Union Fire District of South Kingstown (F)
SC10076%City of Columbia, SC (F) · City of Marion (F) · Town of Moncks Corner (F)
SD3357.6%City of Mitchell (F) · City of Box Elder (F) · City of Sturgis (D)
TN23281%Town of Byrdstown (F) · Jefferson County, Tennessee (F) · City of Kingston (F)
TX53770.4%City of Amarillo (F) · City of New Braunfels (F) · City of Vidor (F)
UT34774.4%Washington City (F) · Duchesne City (F) · Hideout (F)
VA17077.1%Town of Hillsboro (F) · Town of Boones Mill, Virginia (F) · Town of Hamilton (F)
VI2100%Office of the Territorial Public Defender (C) · Virgin Islands Port Authority (B)
VT7065.7%Town of Marshfield (F) · Town of Benson, Vermont (F) · Town of Plainfield, VT (F)
WA16567.3%City of Covington, Wash. (F) · City of Carnation (F) · City of Burien (F)
WI61978.8%Town of Adams (F) · Village of Oakdale (F) · Town of Chilton (F)
WV8374.7%City of Weston, WV (F) · City of Glenville (F) · RALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION (F)
WY4877.1%Town of Bar Nunn (F) · Lincoln County (F) · Big Horn County (F)

The most common failures

What failsSites affectedInstances
Text with too little contrast against its background (color-contrast)364132,136
Links with no accessible name — a screen reader announces nothing (link-name)300414,382
Embedded frames without a title (frame-title)10101,173
Page does not declare its language (html-has-lang)964964
Page blocks pinch-to-zoom on mobile devices (meta-viewport)963966
Images missing alternative text (image-alt)9414,126
Buttons with no accessible name (button-name)6961,850
Page has no title (document-title)572572
Links distinguishable from surrounding text only by color (link-in-text-block)5141,230
Keyboard-focusable content hidden from assistive technology (aria-hidden-focus)4396,352
List markup that is malformed, which confuses screen readers (list)404544
ARIA attributes used where they are not allowed (aria-prohibited-attr)321695

Methodology

Each site’s homepage is loaded in a real headless browser and audited with axe-core 4.12.1, restricted to the WCAG 2.0/2.1 Level A and AA rule tags. We count failing elements (axe violation nodes) at each impact level, and grade on serious + critical counts:

  • A — no serious or critical failures detected
  • B — no critical failures, at most 2 serious
  • C — 10 or fewer serious-or-critical failures
  • D — 11 to 25 serious-or-critical failures
  • F — more than 25 serious-or-critical failures

Only .gov-hosted sites are scanned; a homepage that redirects off .gov is excluded rather than scored. Automated checks find a subset of WCAG 2.1 AA — an A grade means the homepage passed every automated check on the day it was scanned, not that the entity conforms to the standard or to its Title II obligations. Scanning is continuous; this page and the dataset regenerate as new results land. Entity list: US local governments from the public .gov registry with population figures from Census data.

Download the data

The full dataset is free to download and reuse under CC BY 4.0 — cite “CivicBinder Municipal Web Accessibility Index” and link this page:

Cite this dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21739139 — a versioned snapshot of this index archived on Zenodo.

If your entity is on this list

CivicBinder turns a failing scan into a fixed website and a binder of evidence — the scan record, the remediation log, and the posted accessibility statement your entity will want on file before its deadline. Request your free five-page report — your actual defect counts against WCAG 2.1 AA with examples quoted from your own pages, no engagement required. Or write to hello@civicbinder.org. Data updated August 2, 2026.