a11yindex.in · a growing public audit · first published 2026-08-23

60 of 61 India public-service sites audited fail on the first page.

Millions of disabled Indians rely on these websites to bank, pay taxes, and reach government services. Most of them do not work with a screen reader or a keyboard. This index measures where each one fails, names the exact fault on the page, and gives every site owner a clear way to fix it and be re-checked. The aim is plain: make these services usable for the people the law already says they must serve.

Covered here: Union ministries, public-sector and scheduled commercial banks, state governments, and health-scheme portals, checked with an automated harness (axe-core, the same engine behind the WebAIM Million). Every finding is a real fault on the site’s own page, with third-party widgets like YouTube and chat boxes excluded. Deeper per-journey audits exist for the sites in the evidence archive: see the Income Tax portal walkthrough. Full method and limits are on the methodology page.

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61 sites audited so far, 60 failing. The growing full-corpus index.
60Sites failing
61Audited
430Rules failed
2,848Elements affected

What's in the index

Every audited site is listed and ranked in the full All-India index, worst failures first. The most detailed sites also have a per-journey evidence page that follows one real person through one real task and names every fault with its exact element and rule.

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Honest limits

117 sites covered so far: 61 audited, 23 blocking automated tools, and 33 unreachable from outside India. No accessibility claim is made about the sites that served a block page or did not respond from outside India; they are listed for completeness and will be re-audited with a method their servers accept. Only the 61 sites that served their real page carry findings. Automated scanning catches a floor of the real problems, never the ceiling.