92.5% across the 146 remodeling contractor websites we inspected.

Remodeling posts the lowest serious rate of the three, and the gap to the other two is real rather than noise. Remodeling sites tend to be the most recently rebuilt, and newer template systems ship with contrast defaults that clear the threshold out of the box. So this is one place where paying for a rebuild demonstrably bought something.

That puts remodeling below the combined figure of 95.8% across all 380 brands , by 3.3 percentage points. Here is the same measurement in the other two trades we inspected.

Trade	Sites that are hard to use for the disabled	Sites
Remodeling (this page)	92.5%	146
Roofing	97.7%	130
HVAC	98.1%	104

Why it costs you work

This is the number that makes the whole conversation uncomfortable, because it is close enough to everybody that being average stops being a defence. And the pale-text problem is not theoretical. If your phone number is set in light grey on a white background, the customer standing in their driveway at noon holding a phone cannot read it, and they are not going to squint. They are going to ring somebody else.

Checking your own remodeling site

Same free checker, but look at the orange icons this time. Then do the test no software can do for you: take your phone outside on a bright day, turn the brightness down to half, and try to read your own phone number and your own quote button. If you have to squint, so does everybody else.

Everything else we measured on remodeling sites

Measurement	Remodeling
Sites people with disabilities cannot use	59.6%
How long sites take to load on a phone	7.57s
Quote form field count	35.8%
Multi-step forms	6.4%
Named customer testimonials	48.6%
Before and after galleries	44.5%

What was measured: Share of brands with at least one serious violation across captured pages.
How we measured it: Same accessibility checker, same pages, but counting the rung below blocking: the faults that make a page hard work rather than impossible.
The technical version, for anyone checking our work: axe-core 4.10.2, >=1 serious on any captured page
Scope: all captured pages
Denominator: 146 remodeling brands.
Collection window: 2026-05-10 to 2026-05-16
Who ran it: Fervor Studio, first-party capture. Nobody paid to be included or excluded.

This measurement across every trade: Sites that are hard to use for the disabled. How the capture works: the methodology.

The full report behind the remodeling numbers: State of Remodeling. Or see how individual remodeling brands scored on the remodeling leaderboard.