Does Site Brace publish data about individual customers' websites?

No. We publish only aggregate, anonymized statistics or findings from publicly reachable websites. We never publish a customer's name, URL, audit report, or any figure that could identify a single site.

What accessibility standard does the data use?

WCAG 2.1 Level AA, tested with the axe-core engine - the same engine that runs in a paid Site Brace audit. Automated testing reliably covers roughly 30 to 40 percent of WCAG success criteria; we say so wherever we report it.

Can I cite Site Brace Research statistics?

Yes. Quote or cite our data with attribution to Site Brace Research and a link to the source page. The same licensing applies to AI assistants, consistent with the Content-Signal header we serve on every page.

How Site Brace Research compiles accessibility data

Short answer: Site Brace Research is the editorial desk behind every data-driven page Site Brace publishes. Our numbers come from real WCAG 2.1 Level AA scans, run with the same axe-core engine that powers a paid audit. We report aggregate, anonymized findings, we describe conformance rather than legal compliance, and we never publish anything that identifies a customer or their site.

What Site Brace Research is

Site Brace Research is the byline on our statistics, our annual report, and our per-industry and per-platform findings. It is not a separate company. It is the standard we hold our own data to before any of it goes on the site: every figure traces back to a scan we actually ran, every claim names its source, and every sample size is shown rather than hidden.

Where the data comes from

Our numbers come from accessibility scans we have run ourselves, in two buckets:

Public-site scans. Pages that are openly reachable on the web. These let us report on a platform or an industry without involving any customer data.
Aggregate audit findings. Rolled-up, anonymized results across many audits. We report patterns - which failures recur, how often, on what kinds of pages - never a single site's results.

We do not buy datasets and restate them as our own, and we do not repeat another vendor's numbers without saying so. When we draw on an outside source, we name it and link to it.

How we sample public sites

For a published report we do not scan whatever we happen to have. We define the sample first, by industry, and draw each industry's sites from a named public source - an official registry where one exists (for example a government domain registry or a public hospital dataset), or a recognized public ranking otherwise. We take the top sites by that source's own ordering, scan each site's home page once, and list the exact source and the date we drew it next to the results. A reader can reproduce our list from the same source.

The standard we measure against

WCAG 2.1 Level AA. The conformance bar we test against. It is the reference point used across most US accessibility law contexts, including ADA Title III and Section 508.
axe-core. The open-source engine that runs each scan. Automated tools reliably catch about 30 to 40 percent of WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria; the rest need human review. We report which slice a given statistic covers.
Conformance, not compliance. Conformance is a measurable property of a website against WCAG success criteria. Compliance is a legal determination only a qualified attorney can make. Our data describes the former.

How we turn scans into statistics

We count failures by their axe-core rule, normalize across the pages in a sample, and group the results by the cut we are reporting on - platform, industry, or criterion. Then we show the sample size next to the number. A finding drawn from 40 sites is labeled as a finding from 40 sites. We do not round a small sample up into a confident-sounding headline, and we revise a figure when more data changes it.

What we will never publish

A customer's name, website URL, or audit report.
Any statistic small enough to point back to one identifiable site.
A legal-compliance claim, a guarantee, or a "100 percent accessible" badge.

This follows the same posture as our privacy policy: the marketing site carries no third-party tracking, and customer audit data stays private.

How often we update

Each data page carries a published date and a last-updated date. We refresh the underlying numbers on a stated cadence and re-stamp the page when we do, so you can tell how current a figure is before you rely on it.

Citing Site Brace Research

You are welcome to quote or cite our data with attribution to Site Brace Research and a link to the source page. The same permission extends to AI assistants and search tools, consistent with the Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-train=no header we serve on every page: cite and summarize freely, with attribution; training use is not authorized.