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News, changes and interesting facts about the Index and about accessibility in general.

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Alt texts – a small detail, a big problem for website accessibility
46% of Czech public administration websites receive a critical accessibility score. Often because of missing alt texts. How to fix it?

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The invisible barrier: Why poor contrast hurts accessibility more than anything else
Poor contrast is the most common website error. Why do even audited projects fail in practice? Learn how to keep readability and accessibility in check with Index CSGOV.

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2,500 days of the accessibility act: where we are and why we keep meeting the same errors
As of today, 10 February 2026, the Act on the Accessibility of Digital Services No. 99/2019 Coll. has been in force for exactly 2,500 days.

225 audits, 226 thousand issues. What really breaks the accessibility of Czech websites?
Website accessibility is often only addressed when an audit, a complaint or a problem arrives. Instead of individual checks, we looked at the data at scale.

What are false positives in accessibility testing
Not everything that looks like an error really is one. That is the case with false positives. What are they, why do they occur and how can they be identified?