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Intentionally inaccessible websites

Intentionally inaccessible websites (and apps)

People make intentionally inaccessible websites for various educational purposes: training, empathy, tests, demos, etc. This lists all such websites I am aware of. Please let me know if you know of any others to be added to this list.

website explanations by license last update
Awesome Recipes (from Deque University Demo Sites) (none) Deque (none) ?
Dream Destination (from Deque University Demo Sites) (none) Deque (none) ?
Gefälscht (from Deque University Demo Sites) (none) Deque (none) ?
MarsCommuter (from Deque University Demo Sites) on notes for MarsCommuter Deque (none) ?
Fake University (none) Silktide (none) ?
Wine Barrel (none) Silktide (none) ?
Web Accessibility Overlays Do Not Work (source) part of demo page Tenon (none) 2019
Awesome Store page for ARC demos (internal?) TPGi (none) ?
Innorater (none) Wa11y (none) ?
Animal Shelter (source, alternative Microsoft page, alternative Microsoft source) (none) Christian Heilmann via Skillshare / Microsoft (none) / MIT 2021
Wandawave (source, blog post) in blog post Elizabeth Lola (none) 2023
Perfect Lighthouse score (blog post) in blog post Matuzo MIT 2021
Portail des immatriculations (source) (none) Luxembourg government MIT 2023
gov.pizza (source) part of source's README UK gov, Defra (none) 2022
The inaccessible service (source) (none) UK gov, DfE MIT 2024
Accessibility Personas (source) (none) UK gov, GDS MIT + OGL 2022
Accessibility Tool Audit (source) part of demo page UK gov, GDS MIT 2019
GDS Admin (source) part of source's README UK gov, GDS MIT 2021
Record a goose sighting (source, version without answers) on answers page UK gov, MoJ MIT 2023
Norwich Cat Zoo (source) (none) UK gov, MoJ (none) 2021
Lulu's Lollipops (none) Toronto Metropolitan University (Ryerson University at the time) (none) 2005
Accessible University (source, includes inaccessible demo documents) on info page University of Washington CC BY-NC-SA 2023
Accessible University (updated) (source) on issues page, includes videos University of Washington, Duke University, OpenAssessIt CC BY-NC-SA 2023
Before and After Demonstration annotations on demo pages W3C W3C rules 2012

Intentionally inaccessible apps

app explanations by license last update
Oh Shit A11y (source, blog post) in blog post Jacob Bartlett (none) 2024
Accessibility Techniques (source, blog post) witin the app and code documentation Paul J Adam Apache 2 2025
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Also the following:

| Awesome Store | page for ARC demos | TPG | (none) | ? |
| Lulu's Lollipops | (none) | Toronto Metropolitan University | (none) | 2005 |

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Many thanks @jkshapiro. I've just updated the list accordingly.
Do you have any more information on where the explanations are for the ARC demos? I assume that's somewhere internal that you get access to as a paying user?

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ARC were using that page in an online demo they gave for one of their products. I'm afraid I don't remember which product or the date of the demo, but they were sharing their screen and I noted down the URL.

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