Website accessibility in the EU
Five common accessibility barriers on the homepages of popular national websites in each EU country.
Updated · Sample month 08/2026 · 3,754 of 5,400 websites measured in 27 countries · Press kit
Key findings
- 81% of the measured homepages have at least one of the five barriers.
- The most common barrier is “Links without text”, found on 57% of homepages.
- A homepage has 22.7 barriers on average.
81%
Homepages with at least one barrier
22.7
Barriers per homepage, on average
The five barriers (share of homepages)
- No page language 8%
- Images without alt text 35%
- Form fields without a label 49%
- Links without text 57%
- Buttons without a name 33%
By country
The EU total comes first, followed by the countries from the highest share to the lowest.
| Country | Measured | Any barrier | Per page | No page language | Images without alt text | Form fields without a label | Links without text | Buttons without a name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU (27 countries) | 3,754 | 81% | 22.7 | 8% | 35% | 49% | 57% | 33% |
| Cyprus | 125 | 94% | 32.1 | 12% | 44% | 51% | 82% | 37% |
| Croatia | 147 | 93% | 27.0 | 10% | 42% | 66% | 75% | 32% |
| Malta | 119 | 92% | 18.8 | 13% | 43% | 50% | 76% | 34% |
| Lithuania | 129 | 90% | 41.5 | 12% | 40% | 60% | 69% | 42% |
| Bulgaria | 127 | 90% | 21.0 | 14% | 41% | 67% | 65% | 36% |
| Slovakia | 156 | 90% | 38.2 | 10% | 37% | 54% | 60% | 31% |
| Hungary | 148 | 89% | 20.6 | 8% | 41% | 60% | 64% | 37% |
| Slovenia | 155 | 88% | 31.0 | 8% | 44% | 62% | 62% | 34% |
| Latvia | 133 | 87% | 22.3 | 13% | 38% | 55% | 67% | 34% |
| Romania | 135 | 87% | 25.9 | 10% | 42% | 64% | 67% | 44% |
| Portugal | 128 | 85% | 28.7 | 5% | 33% | 55% | 55% | 34% |
| France | 121 | 83% | 19.6 | 2% | 41% | 54% | 56% | 39% |
| Estonia | 138 | 83% | 66.3 | 14% | 38% | 46% | 59% | 33% |
| Czechia | 146 | 81% | 16.5 | 7% | 31% | 55% | 54% | 31% |
| Greece | 142 | 80% | 22.9 | 5% | 38% | 50% | 61% | 28% |
| Italy | 135 | 79% | 22.2 | 6% | 35% | 54% | 53% | 43% |
| Poland | 148 | 79% | 14.1 | 7% | 28% | 47% | 46% | 36% |
| Belgium | 132 | 78% | 16.7 | 4% | 35% | 37% | 50% | 39% |
| Luxembourg | 139 | 78% | 19.2 | 8% | 41% | 36% | 50% | 37% |
| Germany | 148 | 77% | 16.3 | 4% | 26% | 49% | 47% | 31% |
| Austria | 147 | 77% | 14.2 | 7% | 32% | 42% | 49% | 24% |
| Denmark | 153 | 76% | 15.3 | 7% | 33% | 42% | 48% | 31% |
| Spain | 112 | 76% | 12.1 | 6% | 29% | 39% | 46% | 29% |
| Netherlands | 152 | 71% | 11.7 | 7% | 26% | 36% | 47% | 32% |
| Ireland | 131 | 68% | 15.5 | 11% | 31% | 37% | 53% | 30% |
| Sweden | 155 | 66% | 8.3 | 3% | 19% | 28% | 50% | 21% |
| Finland | 153 | 65% | 17.0 | 5% | 23% | 26% | 39% | 25% |
Methodology
Sample: for each of the 27 EU countries, the first 200 websites on the country’s own domain (such as .de or .gr) among the 10,000 websites that Chrome users in that country visited most in 08/2026. One website per registered domain, secure (https) websites only. Source: Chrome UX Report (Google, CC BY 4.0).
Our crawler identifies itself as RankProofBot and follows each website’s robots.txt. Once a month it reads robots.txt, /llms.txt and the homepage, one request at a time per website.
Only homepages we could read are measured. Left out: 959 behind bot protection, 225 unreachable, 142 whose robots.txt asks crawlers to stay out, 2 not HTML and 318 built entirely with JavaScript.
The checks read the HTML the server sends, without running JavaScript, and cover five of the six most common failures in the WebAIM Million report. Low-contrast text needs a rendered page and is not measured. The checks find barriers; they cannot prove that a page is accessible.
No website is named: only totals per country are stored and published.
Press kit: quote, cite and reuse
Ready-to-quote figures from the latest month of this study, each with its source attached.
Ready-to-quote figures (3)
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“81% of the measured homepages have at least one of the five barriers.” — RankProof, Website accessibility in the EU, 08/2026 (3,754 websites in 27 EU countries)
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“The most common barrier is “Links without text”, found on 57% of homepages.” — RankProof, Website accessibility in the EU, 08/2026 (3,754 websites in 27 EU countries)
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“A homepage has 22.7 barriers on average.” — RankProof, Website accessibility in the EU, 08/2026 (3,754 websites in 27 EU countries)
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RankProof Research, "Website accessibility in the EU", 2026. https://rankproof.eu/research/website-accessibility-eu
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<a href="https://rankproof.eu/research/website-accessibility-eu">Source: RankProof, Website accessibility in the EU (08/2026)</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>) Free tools on this topic
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