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Ohio: website accessibility, measured

We measured public websites in Ohio in two ways: municipal and county sites with an automated keyboard-only walk, business sites with axe-core. The numbers below come from our open US study; the method and the raw data are public.

Municipal and county websites

556 sites, 2,170 pages measured. A keyboard-only user reached the goal with a visible focus ring and labelled fields on 454 of 2,170 pages — 20.9%.

Rank 44 of 50 states with at least 40 measured pages (a higher share is better).

Business websites

4,372 organizations with a website in the registry, 2,794 measured. axe-core found at least one critical violation on 845 sites (30.2%); 1,185 sites had no violations that axe can detect automatically; on average 4.7 violations per site.

Rank 9 of 51 states with at least 100 measured sites (a lower share of critical violations is better).

Deadlines

The US Department of Justice rule under ADA Title II requires state and local governments serving 50,000 people or more to meet WCAG 2.1 AA by April 26, 2027, and smaller governments by April 26, 2028.

Businesses open to the public fall under ADA Title III. It sets no compliance date — accessibility claims against business websites are possible at any time.

Automated checks find only part of accessibility problems. A clean result is not a certificate of compliance, and a violation found by a machine still needs a human look.

Open the map of all measured sites · Method and raw data of the study · 2026-10-17

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