R&D notes

Charitable accessibility 2022, preliminary results

Jonathan Robert Pool

Tentative accessibility scores for home pages of charities

Introduction

The table below compares the home pages of 74 charities on a preliminary assessment of accessibility. The page names are links to the home pages on the web. The scores are results of a small battery of automated accessibility tests. The ideal score would be 0; the larger the score, the worse the result. The purpose of this testing was to select a subset of charities—those with relatively good scores—for more robust testing.

Preliminary accessibility scores of 74 charities
PageScore (lower is better)
Freedom of the Press Foundation190
Long Now Foundation196
Disability Rights Advocates235
Freedom House244
Virtual Science Teachers269
Hesperian Health Guides315
Signal Technology Foundation315
Internet Archive316
Center for Justice and Accountability335
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy340
Socially Responsible Agricultural Project340
United Nations Population Fund353
Evidence Action379
Global Greengrants Fund408
Center for Responsive Politics413
Center for Democracy and Technology423
Sightsavers436
National Coalition Against Censorship444
Cultural Survival464
Against Malaria Foundation477
Earthjustice480
Guttmacher Institute483
Helen Keller International524
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future543
Citizens for Global Solutions564
Wikimedia Foundation572
NARAL Pro-Choice America575
Malaria Consortium578
Government Accountability Project592
Direct Relief622
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine634
Esperantic Studies Foundation635
Friends of the Earth641
Population Connection649
The Intercept679
Freedom from Religion Foundation704
Special Olympics707
GiveWell713
New Incentives717
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights721
Dissent741
Geohazards International746
The Fund for Global Human Rights769
Healthcare-NOW771
Carnegie Council789
Benetech810
Oxfam America826
Sierra Club865
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting886
Ceres928
Food & Water Watch929
Rehabilitation International933
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists934
Human Rights Watch1000
Environmental Integrity Project1006
Terralingua1071
CARE1083
Grist1162
Children’s Defense Fund1173
United Nations1203
Room to Read1228
Center for Constitutional Rights1252
Human Rights Foundation1275
Natural Resources Defense Council1366
Public Justice1464
End Fund1695
Physicians for a National Health Program1830
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting1945
Humanity and Inclusion2638
Esperanto USA2785
Genocide Watch3142
Planned Parenthood3372
Rainforest Alliance3428
Just Security7364

Discussion

These scores offer a rough approximation of the accessibility of a charity’s home page. The 38 charities with the best scores were selected for more thorough testing.