South Dakota college websites: accessibility rankings

Accessibility scores, grades, and the most common failures for 13 public and 4 private college and university websites in South Dakota, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 17
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing South Dakota college and university sites. All education sites

Public colleges and universities in South Dakota are ranked and averaged together; private nonprofit institutions are listed below with their own average.

A 92

Average accessibility score of 11 fully scanned South Dakota public college sites

6th

of 48 states and territories, ranked by average accessibility score

11 of 13

South dakota public college sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 2, so they're listed without grades

A 91

Average accessibility score of all 2,687 fully scanned education sites

How South Dakota accessibility scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 11 fully scanned South Dakota public college sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • South Dakota average
  • All education average
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Score rangeSites
0 to 90
10 to 190
20 to 290
30 to 390
40 to 490
50 to 590
60 to 690
70 to 792
80 to 892
90 to 1007

South Dakota by accessibility grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. South Dakota: 11 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. South Dakota
  2. All education sites
  • A (90 to 100)
  • B to C (70 to 89)
  • D to F (below 70)
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GroupA (90 to 100)B to C (70 to 89)D to F (below 70)
South Dakota64% (7)36% (4)0% (0)
All education sites66% (1,765)33% (888)1% (34)

Top 3 South Dakota public college sites by accessibility score

#1 in South Dakota · U.S. education rank 1

Black Hills State University

A 100 accessibility

  • Accessibility A
  • Botability A
  • Security B
  • Usability B
  • Readability F

#1 in South Dakota · U.S. education rank 1

Northern State University

A 100 accessibility

  • Accessibility A
  • Botability A
  • Security A
  • Usability F
  • Readability A

#1 in South Dakota · U.S. education rank 1

Southeast Technical College

A 100 accessibility

  • Accessibility A
  • Botability C
  • Security D
  • Usability F
  • Readability F

Most common accessibility failures among South Dakota public college sites

Share of the 11 fully scanned South Dakota public college sites failing each check. A site can fail more than one check. Each check links to its standard and how to fix it.

  1. Background and foreground colors have a sufficient contrast ratio45%
  2. Links have a discernible name36%
  3. Touch targets have sufficient size and spacing27%
  4. Heading elements appear in a sequentially-descending order27%
  5. Buttons have an accessible name18%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Background and foreground colors have a sufficient contrast ratio45%5
Links have a discernible name36%4
Touch targets have sufficient size and spacing27%3
Heading elements appear in a sequentially-descending order27%3
Buttons have an accessible name18%2

What each check means

South Dakota public 4-year institutions by accessibility score

9 sites, 7 fully scanned, average accessibility score 95 (A). Part of the headline average.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 bhsu.edu
Black Hills State University U.S. rank 1 		27 of 27 checks pass A
1 northern.edu
Northern State University U.S. rank 1 		32 of 32 checks pass A
2 sdsmt.edu
U.S. rank 3 		29 of 30 checks pass A
2 dsu.edu
Dakota State University U.S. rank 3 		28 of 29 checks pass A
2 sdstate.edu
South Dakota State University U.S. rank 3 		28 of 29 checks pass A
3 usd.edu
University of South Dakota U.S. rank 10 		25 of 28 checks pass B
4 sintegleska.edu
Sinte Gleska University U.S. rank 12 		29 of 33 checks pass B
olc.edu
Oglala Lakota College 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We couldn't scan your site because it showed our bot a captcha or browser check instead of the page. Status 996 -
swcollege.edu
Sisseton Wahpeton College 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We couldn't fully scan your site because it responded without any page content. Status 995 -

South Dakota public 2-year institutions by accessibility score

4 sites, 4 fully scanned. Part of the headline average.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 southeasttech.edu
Southeast Technical College U.S. rank 1 		29 of 29 checks pass A
2 lakeareatech.edu
Lake Area Technical College U.S. rank 7 		23 of 25 checks pass A
3 mitchelltech.edu
Mitchell Technical College U.S. rank 20 		27 of 34 checks pass C
4 wdt.edu
Western Dakota Technical College U.S. rank 27 		27 of 37 checks pass C

South Dakota private nonprofit institutions by accessibility score

4 sites, 4 fully scanned. Ranked among themselves. Not part of the public average above.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 augie.edu
Augustana University U.S. rank 3 		27 of 28 checks pass A
2 ilt.edu
Institute of Lutheran Theology U.S. rank 11 		23 of 26 checks pass B
3 mountmarty.edu
Mount Marty University U.S. rank 14 		24 of 28 checks pass B
4 kairos.edu
Kairos University U.S. rank 17 		14 of 17 checks pass B

About this data

ScanGov scans the homepage of each college and university site on our higher education list. Scores come from the checks in the ScanGov standards. Sites were scanned between 10/25/2026 and 11/8/2026. Each site's report shows its own scan date. A site counts as fully scanned when its homepage loaded and sent us its page content. Averages, grade shares, failure rates, and ranks use fully scanned sites only. We could not fully scan 2 sites. They did not respond, blocked the scanner, or sent no page content. They appear in the table without grades, with their scan status, and are left out of every figure. Grades follow the ScanGov grade scale. Rank follows the ScanGov ranking method. The full dataset, with every county's raw results, is in the ScanGov data repository.

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