CWAC Loserboard: version 2 (beta) is here!
The interactive CWAC accessibility loserboard has moved to its own standalone site. Here’s what CWAC is, and where to find the live rankings.
What is CWAC?
During my time in NZ Government, I led the creation of the Centralised Web Accessibility Checker (CWAC), an automated programme that scans practically every public-facing government website every quarter, testing for accessibility issues, keyboard focus indicators, plain language readability, and reflow issues.
I built a public “loserboard” from this data, ranking government websites and agencies by how badly they perform.
I’ve now released v2 of the CWAC Loserboard — which is a huge leap forward in the way this data is presented.
It is currently in beta — I am still buffing out some bugs and improving its clarity. This development effort took over $200 NZD in AI token costs, and several days of my human effort to help guide and direct its architecture and design.
Check out the new CWAC Loserboard
The loserboard has moved to a dedicated website: cwac.openaccess.nz
What’s the biggest upgrade?
The most amazing upgrade, is being able to see changes in the mean average of accessibility issues across all scanned pages. This means we can actually see the entire government slowly shifting to a more accessible web presence.
It also has some seriously cool data visualisations, where I show literally every single government website on a single chart. This gives you a broad sense of who the outliers are, and whether they have bothered to improve their website accessibility over the last year or so.
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