Observatorio de Accesibilidad Digital — Uruguay's Six-Monthly Open-Data Accessibility Measurement

AGESIC, Uruguay's e-government agency, runs a public Observatorio de Accesibilidad Digital that audits institutional websites, cross-government platforms and online transactions against WCAG 2.1, with a legal base in Article 88 of Law 19.924 and Decree 406/022 of December 2022.

Results are published every six months through an open visualiser and open datasets, covering 130 public organisations. AGESIC pairs measurement with a Programa de Accesibilidad en Entornos Digitales that walks organisations through their first adaptation cycle.

The fourth measurement (October 2025) found organisations completing their first adaptation cycle with AGESIC showed a 69% reduction in previously identified errors; across the whole estate, 48% of institutional portals reduced accessibility errors versus April 2025, and more than 13,000 pages (28% of those surveyed) were free of accessibility errors. Of 16 transactions specifically oriented to people with disabilities, only 31% complied with the guidelines.

The measurement is automated and AGESIC's own published methodology states automatic tools detect only an estimated 25-30% of total accessibility problems and cannot weight errors by context or complete forms — a page recorded as error-free is not demonstrated to be usable by a disabled person, and no co-design or user testing with disabled people is published as part of the measurement loop.