Website accessibility for law firms: ADA and EAA risks

Common accessibility problems on these sites

• Case-intake forms without labels or error messages
• Attorney headshots and logos without alt text
• Chat widgets that trap keyboard focus
• Practice-area menus that only open on hover

What we found on 41 law firms websites

Average automated score: 59/100. Share of sampled sites with each issue on at least one scanned page:

• 78% no accessibility statement link
• 68% no "skip to main content" link
• 66% contact or checkout fields without autocomplete
• 59% links with no accessible name
• 56% skipped heading levels
• 44% form fields without labels
• 37% duplicate element ids
• 32% embedded frames without titles

Methodology: Read-only scan of the homepage and up to 2 linked pages of 41 public law firms websites in six U.S. metros (Austin, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Seattle, Phoenix), scanned 2026-10-26. Site list from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Our crawler honors robots.txt; individual sites are never named. Automated checks find only some issues, and these figures describe the sample, not every business or any legal conclusion. About our crawler.

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