Every number on this site, and where it came from.
A product that argues from statistics should be willing to be checked on them. This page lists each figure used in public, who counted it, when it was last verified, and what it does not prove.
US web-accessibility lawsuits filed in 2025.
UsableNet ADA Web Accessibility Lawsuit Tracker · verified 11 September 2026
Corrected. This site previously said "5,000+". The tracker's own figure is 4,928, which is just under five thousand, so the rounded version overstated it. UsableNet count filings in federal court and in the New York and California state courts; claims filed elsewhere, and demand letters that never become filings, are not included — so the true number of disputes is higher than this and the number of lawsuits is exactly this.
New filings in a single month — August 2026.
UsableNet, same tracker · verified 11 September 2026
Monthly volume has been running at roughly this level through 2026. An earlier version of this page cited 401 for July 2026 from a secondary write-up; the tracker itself is the primary source and is used here instead.
Minimum statutory damages per violation, California's Unruh Civil Rights Act.
California Civil Code §52(a) · verified 11 September 2026
Plus attorney's fees, and each separate occasion on which someone is denied equal access can count as a separate violation. One caveat in the business's favour: for certain construction-related claims a defendant who corrects the problem within 30–60 days may have damages reduced to $1,000–$2,000. Exposure follows your visitors rather than your address, so a business outside California can still be reached if Californians use the site.
FTC penalty against accessiBe for claiming its tool made sites automatically WCAG-compliant.
US Federal Trade Commission, final order April 2025 · verified 11 September 2026
This is why Legible never states that a site is compliant, at any price. It is also the reason every report prints what it could not check.
Of businesses sued over digital accessibility already had an accessibility "solution" installed.
AudioEye, 2026 analysis · verified 11 September 2026
Weakest figure on this page. AudioEye sells a competing product, so this is a vendor statistic about rival vendors and should be read with that in mind. It is quoted because the direction is corroborated by the FTC action above, not because the exact percentage has been independently audited.
AudioEye annual recurring revenue, 30 June 2026.
AudioEye Inc. (NASDAQ: AEYE) quarterly report · verified 11 September 2026
Used only to show that people pay for this category. It is a public company's own filing, which is the strongest class of source on this page.
Per year, the small-business tier at both accessiBe and UserWay.
Both vendors' own published pricing pages · verified 11 September 2026
Checked by opening the pricing pages, not by reading a comparison article. Vendor pricing changes without notice; if it has moved since the date above, this page is stale and the figure should be re-checked before it is quoted.
The share of real WCAG barriers that automated testing can detect at all.
Widely reported across accessibility tooling literature · verified 11 September 2026
This is a range repeated by many practitioners rather than a single measured study, and it is the reason Legible reports limits on every scan. It is quoted against our own interest, which is the only direction a vendor's estimate of its own coverage can honestly run.
- If a figure here is wrong, it should be changed rather than defended. A business built on a number nobody re-checked is worse than no business. Two numbers on this site have already been corrected downward after checking the primary source.
- Nothing here is a legal opinion. These are published figures about litigation volume and vendor pricing. Whether any of it applies to a particular business is a question for a lawyer, not for a scanner.