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Website accessibility for real estate brokerages: ADA and EAA risks

Real estate brokerages websites usually hinge on listing search, property pages and agent contact forms. These are the accessibility problems that most often show up on them, and they are among the issues cited in ADA demand letters. Check your own site for free with a read-only scan.

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Common accessibility problems on these sites

  • Listing photos without alt text
  • Map-based search with no list alternative
  • Mortgage calculators with unlabeled inputs
  • Virtual tours embedded without titles

What we found on 39 real estate brokerages websites

Average automated score: 54/100. Share of sampled sites with each issue on at least one scanned page:

  • 95% no accessibility statement link
  • 72% no "skip to main content" link
  • 64% skipped heading levels
  • 62% contact or checkout fields without autocomplete
  • 56% links with no accessible name
  • 54% form fields without labels
  • 49% no main heading (h1)
  • 36% duplicate element ids

Methodology: Read-only scan of the homepage and up to 2 linked pages of 39 public real estate brokerages 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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Run the free scan on your homepage and your booking, contact or checkout page. It lists the exact HTML to fix and generates an Accessibility Statement. Avoid overlay widgets; fix the underlying pages instead.

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Frequently asked questions

What should real estate brokerages check first?

Listing photos without alt text.

How do I check my own site?

Run the free scan on your homepage and your booking, contact or checkout page. It lists the exact HTML to fix and generates an Accessibility Statement. Avoid overlay widgets; fix the underlying pages instead.

Is this legal advice?

No. These are technical guidelines and an automated, read-only check, not legal advice or a certification.

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