{"id":5157,"date":"2021-07-12T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T09:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/blog\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2021-07-28T17:08:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T16:08:54","slug":"most-accessible-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/blog\/most-accessible-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Accessible Retail Sites for the Visually Impaired"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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In the UK, over 2 million people are living with sight loss<\/a> and 3 million with colour blindness<\/a>. On top of that, 360,000 are registered as blind or partially sighted.<\/p>\r\n

Making your website accessible to the visually impaired not only helps these users but also your business. Five million UK buyers is a significant market to lose out on \u2013 especially when many accessibility issues are simple to fix.<\/p>\r\n

Even Google is now placing more importance on website accessibility. Just this month, they released a new page experience update<\/a>, that takes into account (you guessed it) a user\u2019s experience on a page. And if disabled users regularly have a poor experience, Google might choose to rank a better performing competitor instead.<\/p>\r\n

At LCN, we are believers in the power of designing a website with accessibility in mind. And we\u2019re always looking to improve our own designs to provide an effortless experience for all of our users.<\/p>\r\n

With this in mind, we wanted to conduct a mini accessibility audit of the top 50 retail homepages in the UK. We then wanted to highlight a few ways these websites could perform better for visually impaired users.<\/p>\r\n

For this, we turned to two of the main tools that are regularly used by accessibility evaluators: Google Lighthouse<\/a> and Wave by WebAim<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

The first of which gives webmasters a performance score from 0-100. The latter showcases how sites can improve.<\/p>\r\n<\/section>\r\n


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The Most (and Least) Accessible Retail Sites Overall<\/h2>\r\n
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Retail Site<\/th>\r\nGoogle Lighthouse Accessibility Score<\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/thead>\r\n
H&M<\/td>\r\n100<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Laura Ashley<\/td>\r\n99<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Beauty Bay<\/td>\r\n98<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
B&Q<\/td>\r\n98<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Sainsbury’s<\/td>\r\n98<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Ann Summers<\/td>\r\n96<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Wickes<\/td>\r\n96<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Karen Millen<\/td>\r\n91<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Oasis<\/td>\r\n91<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Tesco<\/td>\r\n91<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
John Lewis<\/td>\r\n91<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Amazon<\/td>\r\n90<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Apple<\/td>\r\n90<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Evans Cycles<\/td>\r\n90<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Space NK<\/td>\r\n89<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Asos<\/td>\r\n88<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
American Golf<\/td>\r\n87<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Holland & Barrett<\/td>\r\n86<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Dunelm<\/td>\r\n86<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Morrisons<\/td>\r\n84<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Waitrose<\/td>\r\n84<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
House of Fraser<\/td>\r\n81<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Very<\/td>\r\n81<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Argos<\/td>\r\n81<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Schuh<\/td>\r\n80<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Superdrug<\/td>\r\n80<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Axminster<\/td>\r\n79<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
River Island<\/td>\r\n79<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Dune London<\/td>\r\n78<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Moss Bros.<\/td>\r\n77<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Ao.com<\/td>\r\n77<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Boots<\/td>\r\n77<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
JD Williams<\/td>\r\n75<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Next<\/td>\r\n75<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
JD Sports<\/td>\r\n75<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Debenhams<\/td>\r\n75<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Asda<\/td>\r\n75<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Screwfix<\/td>\r\n74<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Nisbets<\/td>\r\n74<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Simply Be<\/td>\r\n72<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Jacamo<\/td>\r\n72<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Marks & Spencer<\/td>\r\n72<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Office<\/td>\r\n71<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
The Perfume Shop<\/td>\r\n71<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Currys<\/td>\r\n69<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Chain Reaction Cycles<\/td>\r\n67<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Wilko<\/td>\r\n63<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
New Look<\/td>\r\n63<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Carphone Warehouse<\/td>\r\n58<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Halfords<\/td>\r\n47<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n