Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2026

It’s Thursday 21st of May 2026 and it’s the 15th Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Like a lot of other awareness campaigns, this is often a day when organisations make a big song and dance about how they are supporting persons with disabilities, only to not give a toss the day after.

The latest WebAIM Million report tells us:

The number of detected errors increased 10.1% since the 2025 analysis which found 51 errors/page.

It’s pretty shocking that things are getting worse when it has only gotten easier to write and test for well-engineered frontends. I wonder if the emergence of LLM-generated code has had a hand in this. If the majority of code is inaccessible, and LLMs are being trained on this output, it’s going to be the most likely thing they generate when prompted to the next time. The well is forever poisoned.

If you’re involved in creating content for the web - whether that’s design, coding, or copywriting - take a beat and have a think about what you could do better.

• If you design, consider how someone who doesn’t use a mouse might operate your fancy user interface.
• If you code, reach for the rich palette of HTML before creating a widget using divs. It does a lot of the heavy lifting, honest.
• If you write, don’t forget to describe the contents of images and rich media you include.