Signals Human craft
Hand-written ARIA
- Category
- Human craft
- Direction
- Pulls the score down
- Weight
- −7
What it is
Evidence of deliberate decisions. Finding this does not make a page good. It makes it deliberate, which is a different and smaller claim.
How it is weighted
This is a craft marker, so it pulls the score down rather than up — 7 points of evidence that somebody made a decision here.
Craft does double duty in the scoring. It subtracts directly, and it also damps the aesthetic categories: the more deliberate craft a page shows, the less its gradients and rounded corners are allowed to say about it.
How to earn it
Label the icon-only controls and landmark regions. Every button needs an accessible name.
Where it fires
Of the homepages we scan as worked examples, this signal fired on 23:
- gov.uk 5/100 — 14 explicit accessibility attributes.
- stripe.com 15/100 — 143 explicit accessibility attributes.
- linear.app 8/100 — 220 explicit accessibility attributes.
- vercel.com 21/100 — 80 explicit accessibility attributes.
- tailwindcss.com 75/100 — 69 explicit accessibility attributes.
- github.com 7/100 — 64 explicit accessibility attributes.
- notion.so 13/100 — 107 explicit accessibility attributes.
- figma.com 6/100 — 63 explicit accessibility attributes.
- basecamp.com 7/100 — 58 explicit accessibility attributes.
- apple.com 8/100 — 209 explicit accessibility attributes.
- nytimes.com 4/100 — 21 explicit accessibility attributes.
- bbc.com 10/100 — 120 explicit accessibility attributes.
- webflow.com 23/100 — 150 explicit accessibility attributes.
- framer.com 9/100 — 137 explicit accessibility attributes.
- cloudflare.com 17/100 — 63 explicit accessibility attributes.
- openai.com 11/100 — 112 explicit accessibility attributes.
- sokoon.xyz 12/100 — 11 explicit accessibility attributes.
- lovable.dev 21/100 — 25 explicit accessibility attributes.
- v0.app 37/100 — 10 explicit accessibility attributes.
- bolt.new 15/100 — 14 explicit accessibility attributes.
- replit.com 9/100 — 18 explicit accessibility attributes.
- base44.com 82/100 — 38 explicit accessibility attributes.
- webflow.io 23/100 — 150 explicit accessibility attributes.