Washington college websites: accessibility rankings

Accessibility scores, grades, and the most common failures for 42 public and 19 private college and university websites in Washington, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 61
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Washington college and university sites. All education sites

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

A 94

Average accessibility score of 36 fully scanned Washington public college sites

4th

of 48 states and territories, ranked by average accessibility score

36 of 42

Washington public college sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 6, so they're listed without grades

A 91

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

How Washington accessibility scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 36 fully scanned Washington public college sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Washington 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 790
80 to 894
90 to 10032

Washington by accessibility grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Washington: 36 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Washington
  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)
Washington89% (32)11% (4)0% (0)
All education sites66% (1,765)33% (888)1% (34)

Top 3 Washington public college sites by accessibility score

#1 in Washington · U.S. education rank 1

Centralia College

A 100 accessibility

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

#1 in Washington · U.S. education rank 1

Eastern Washington University

A 100 accessibility

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

#1 in Washington · U.S. education rank 1

Lake Washington Institute of Technology

A 100 accessibility

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

Most common accessibility failures among Washington public college sites

Share of the 36 fully scanned Washington 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. Elements with visible text labels have matching accessible names28%
  2. Touch targets have sufficient size and spacing22%
  3. Heading elements appear in a sequentially-descending order19%
  4. Links have a discernible name14%
  5. Document has a main landmark14%
View the data table
CheckShare failingSites failing
Elements with visible text labels have matching accessible names28%10
Touch targets have sufficient size and spacing22%8
Heading elements appear in a sequentially-descending order19%7
Links have a discernible name14%5
Document has a main landmark14%5

What each check means

Washington public 4-year institutions by accessibility score

42 sites, 36 fully scanned, average accessibility score 94 (A). Part of the headline average.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 centralia.edu
Centralia College U.S. rank 1 		22 of 22 checks pass A
1 ewu.edu
Eastern Washington University U.S. rank 1 		30 of 30 checks pass A
1 lwtech.edu
Lake Washington Institute of Technology U.S. rank 1 		23 of 23 checks pass A
1 olympic.edu
Olympic College U.S. rank 1 		33 of 33 checks pass A
1 rtc.edu
Renton Technical College U.S. rank 1 		24 of 24 checks pass A
1 spscc.edu
South Puget Sound Community College U.S. rank 1 		27 of 27 checks pass A
1 uwb.edu
University of Washington-Bothell Campus U.S. rank 1 		26 of 26 checks pass A
1 wwu.edu
Western Washington University U.S. rank 1 		31 of 31 checks pass A
2 ghc.edu
Grays Harbor College U.S. rank 2 		33 of 34 checks pass A
2 wvc.edu
Wenatchee Valley College U.S. rank 2 		33 of 34 checks pass A
3 cascadia.edu
Cascadia College U.S. rank 3 		25 of 26 checks pass A
3 clark.edu
Clark College U.S. rank 3 		27 of 28 checks pass A
3 edmonds.edu
Edmonds College U.S. rank 3 		29 of 30 checks pass A
3 everettcc.edu
Everett Community College U.S. rank 3 		31 of 32 checks pass A
3 highline.edu
Highline College U.S. rank 3 		29 of 30 checks pass A
3 pierce.ctc.edu
Pierce College District U.S. rank 3 		27 of 28 checks pass A
3 skagit.edu
Skagit Valley College U.S. rank 3 		27 of 28 checks pass A
3 washington.edu
University of Washington-Seattle Campus U.S. rank 3 		29 of 30 checks pass A
4 cptc.edu
Clover Park Technical College U.S. rank 5 		33 of 35 checks pass A
4 lowercolumbia.edu
Lower Columbia College U.S. rank 5 		33 of 35 checks pass A
4 wsu.edu
Washington State University U.S. rank 5 		32 of 34 checks pass A
5 bigbend.edu
Big Bend Community College U.S. rank 6 		28 of 30 checks pass A
5 columbiabasin.edu
Columbia Basin College U.S. rank 6 		27 of 29 checks pass A
5 greenriver.edu
Green River College U.S. rank 6 		30 of 32 checks pass A
5 nwic.edu
Northwest Indian College U.S. rank 6 		27 of 29 checks pass A
5 tacoma.uw.edu
University of Washington-Tacoma Campus U.S. rank 6 		30 of 32 checks pass A
6 tacomacc.edu
Tacoma Community College U.S. rank 7 		24 of 26 checks pass A
6 wwcc.edu
Walla Walla Community College U.S. rank 7 		25 of 27 checks pass A
7 northseattle.edu
North Seattle College U.S. rank 9 		28 of 31 checks pass A
7 seattlecentral.edu
Seattle Central College U.S. rank 9 		29 of 32 checks pass A
7 shoreline.edu
Shoreline Community College U.S. rank 9 		30 of 33 checks pass A
7 southseattle.edu
South Seattle College U.S. rank 9 		29 of 32 checks pass A
8 cwu.edu
Central Washington University U.S. rank 10 		26 of 29 checks pass B
9 sfcc.spokane.edu
Spokane Falls Community College U.S. rank 12 		29 of 33 checks pass B
10 scc.spokane.edu
Spokane Community College U.S. rank 15 		28 of 33 checks pass B
11 btc.edu
Bellingham Technical College U.S. rank 16 		26 of 31 checks pass B
batestech.edu
Bates Technical College 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We weren't able to fully scan your site. Status 999 -
bellevuecollege.edu
Bellevue 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 -
pencol.edu
Peninsula 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 -
evergreen.edu
The Evergreen State 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 -
whatcom.edu
Whatcom Community College 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We weren't able to fully scan your site. Status 403 -
yvcc.edu
Yakima Valley College 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We didn't scan your site because its robots.txt asked us not to. Status 998 -

Washington private nonprofit institutions by accessibility score

19 sites, 19 fully scanned, average accessibility score 91 (A). Ranked among themselves. Not part of the public average above.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 pnwu.edu
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences U.S. rank 1 		26 of 26 checks pass A
1 seattleu.edu
Seattle University U.S. rank 1 		28 of 28 checks pass A
1 wallawalla.edu
Walla Walla University U.S. rank 1 		30 of 30 checks pass A
2 whitman.edu
Whitman College U.S. rank 2 		33 of 34 checks pass A
3 cityu.edu
City University of Seattle U.S. rank 3 		32 of 33 checks pass A
3 cornish.edu
Cornish College of the Arts U.S. rank 3 		24 of 25 checks pass A
3 stmartin.edu
Saint Martin's University U.S. rank 3 		28 of 29 checks pass A
3 pugetsound.edu
University of Puget Sound U.S. rank 3 		29 of 30 checks pass A
3 whitworth.edu
Whitworth University U.S. rank 3 		29 of 30 checks pass A
4 bastyr.edu
Bastyr University U.S. rank 6 		30 of 32 checks pass A
4 plu.edu
Pacific Lutheran University U.S. rank 6 		28 of 30 checks pass A
5 perrytech.edu
Perry Technical Institute U.S. rank 8 		31 of 34 checks pass A
6 heritage.edu
Heritage University U.S. rank 13 		26 of 30 checks pass B
6 northwestu.edu
Northwest University U.S. rank 13 		26 of 30 checks pass B
6 theseattleschool.edu
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology U.S. rank 13 		26 of 30 checks pass B
7 sieam.edu
Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine U.S. rank 14 		23 of 27 checks pass B
8 gonzaga.edu
Gonzaga University U.S. rank 24 		24 of 32 checks pass C
8 pnwcc.edu
Pacific Northwest Christian College U.S. rank 24 		22 of 29 checks pass C
9 nwswb.edu
Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building U.S. rank 26 		22 of 30 checks pass C

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 6 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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