Interactive Accessibility Failure Demos

Feel the Breakdown
Before Users Do

This is not a checklist. It's an impact cockpit for teams that need to show exactly how inaccessible flows fail real people — with 21 fully modeled demos.

"Every inaccessible interaction is a real person being excluded."
96.3%
Homepages Fail WCAG
1.3B
People Impacted
$13T
Spending Power
4,605
Lawsuits in 2023
21
Modeled Demos

Severity Atlas

Start where user harm is highest. Every issue is mapped by severity with WCAG references and reproducible test protocols.

6 CRITICAL

Complete Blockers

Users cannot proceed. Task completion is impossible.
Keyboard Trap
Focus Trap in Drawer
Missing Alt on Functional Images
+ 3 more issues
6 HIGH

Major Barriers

Extremely difficult. Users struggle significantly.
Missing Form Labels
Keyboard-Inaccessible Select
Low Contrast
+ 3 more issues
5 MEDIUM

Moderate Issues

Frustrating and confusing. Poor user experience.
Heading Level Chaos
Ambiguous Link Text
No Skip Link
+ 2 more issues
4 LOW

Minor Friction

Annoying but workable. Still needs fixing.
Redundant ARIA
Missing Lang Attribute
Decorative Image Alt Noise
+ 1 more issues

Real People, Repeated Barriers

These are not edge cases. They are everyday users blocked by avoidable interaction failures.

Blind Users

Controls become unlabeled or misleading. Navigation relies entirely on screen readers.

Deaf Users

Audio-first content has no equivalent path. Alerts and feedback are missed.

Motor Users

Tiny controls and keyboard traps block task completion entirely.

Cognitive

Motion and inconsistent structure overload users with processing demands.

Older Adults

Low contrast and missing focus indicators reduce usability to frustrating levels.

Temporary Limits

Injuries and situational barriers turn minor issues into complete blockers.

From Demo to Decision in Four Moves

Run the demos with your team, capture the failures, and convert them into a remediation roadmap users can actually feel.

01

Pick a Severity

Start with Critical when you need to align executives fast, then move downward for cumulative friction.

02

Run the Demo

Use keyboard-only interaction and screen reader simulation to reproduce failure in under two minutes.

03

Document Impact

Capture user harm and business risk with WCAG reference tied to each scenario.

04

Prioritize Fixes

Move from isolated bug reports to sequenced remediation by user impact.

Audit Practice Lab

Train Your Audit Skills

Five realistic single-page scenarios with personas, time constraints, and hidden issues. Run the drill, find the problems, then reveal the official findings to benchmark your skills.

Support Intake Crisis
Enterprise Invoice Escalation
Follow-Up Booking Deadline
Checkout Under Shipping Cutoff
Live Operations Alert Desk
Open Practice Lab

See the barrier. Feel the impact.
Fix with urgency.

Build with visibility, not assumptions. Run the demos with your team and convert failures into a remediation roadmap.

An initiative by Accessibility.build