From the bench
Findings
Each of these takes one narrow thing you can check on your own site this afternoon, with no licence, no scan and nobody’s dashboard. Start with the keyboard test if you have never done any of this before.
Everything on the bench, newest first
Finding 0112 Sep 2026Conformance Reports and VPATs: Reading the Document, Not the Badge
A vendor sends you an accessibility conformance report. It is forty pages long and it is not a certificate. Here is how to read one, and which column tells you the truth.
Finding 028 Sep 2026Writing an Accessibility Statement That Is Not a Fiction
Most accessibility statements are copied from a generator, claim conformance nobody measured, and give the reader no way to get help. Here is what an honest one contains.
Finding 032 Sep 2026Forms That Fail: Labels, Errors and the Placeholder Problem
Missing form input labels were detected on 51% of the top million home pages. On a small business site the form is usually the only thing that earns money, which makes this the expensive failure.
Finding 0424 Aug 2026Webflow Accessibility: Maximum Control, Maximum Responsibility
Webflow hands you the markup, a contrast checker where the colour decision happens, and an audit panel. It also hands you every structural mistake a hand-coded site can make.
Finding 0517 Aug 2026Squarespace Accessibility: Strong Defaults, No Scanner
Squarespace inherits you a skip link and a visible focus outline without being asked, which is more than most platforms manage. Then it leaves you to find every problem yourself.
Finding 0610 Aug 2026The Wix Accessibility Wizard: What It Finds and What It Cannot
Wix is one of two builders here with an accessibility scanner built into the editor. It raises the floor considerably. Wix is also clear that it does not settle anything.
Finding 073 Aug 2026Colour Contrast in Builder Themes: The Most Common Failure on the Web
Low contrast text was detected on 83.9% of the top million home pages. Here is why builder themes produce it so reliably, and how to measure your own instead of guessing.
Finding 0827 Jul 2026Where Website Builders Hide the Alt-Text Field
Every major builder supports alternative text. Not every builder puts the field somewhere you will find it, and several have image contexts where there is no field at all.
Finding 0921 Jul 2026The Keyboard Test: Twenty Minutes, No Tools, No Licence
Unplug the mouse and try to use your own site. It is the single most revealing accessibility check available to you, it costs nothing, and almost nobody does it.