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IBM Plex

plex.ibm.com

F51/100

Compliance Index score

51/100 · F

7 pass4 fail23 warn3 skip0 tokens

= flat since last week

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Per-category breakdown

Each category is scored independently. The cohort average shows how this site compares to the 30-site cohort in each dimension.

Cadence45.8%(cohort: 60.1%)
0 pass · 1 fail · 11 warn · 0 skip · 18% weight
Accessibility50.0%(cohort: 58.4%)
0 pass · 0 fail · 5 warn · 1 skip · 15% weight
Semanticunscored
0 pass · 0 fail · 0 warn · 0 skip · 12% weight
Motion62.5%(cohort: 52.5%)
2 pass · 1 fail · 1 warn · 0 skip · 10% weight
Tokens0.0%(cohort: 40.8%)
0 pass · 1 fail · 0 warn · 1 skip · 9% weight
Takt50.0%(cohort: 50.8%)
0 pass · 0 fail · 2 warn · 0 skip · 8% weight
Poise50.0%(cohort: 75.0%)
0 pass · 0 fail · 2 warn · 1 skip · 7% weight
Identity75.0%(cohort: 83.3%)
1 pass · 0 fail · 1 warn · 0 skip · 6% weight
Interaction0.0%(cohort: 60.0%)
0 pass · 1 fail · 0 warn · 0 skip · 6% weight
Performanceunscored
0 pass · 0 fail · 0 warn · 0 skip · 6% weight
Responsiveunscored
0 pass · 0 fail · 0 warn · 0 skip · 3% weight

Evaluation

IBM Plex scores 51/F on the Designesy Compliance Index — 7 of 40 checks passed, 4 failed, 23 warned, 3 skipped. The cohort mean is 62.2/D across 30 scored sites. IBM Plex sits 18% below the cohort mean.

Strongest category: Identity at 75.0%. Weakest scored category: Tokens at 0.0%. The gap between best and worst is the finding — most systems are strong in one dimension and absent in another.

F-grade means IBM Plex scores below 60 — the contract's pass threshold. The failing checks are not subjective: they are missing CSS primitives that the contract requires at :root.

This evaluation is deterministic — no LLM, no human judgment, no survey. The same 40-check engine that scored IBM Plex scores every site on the leaderboard. Re-score plex.ibm.com live to see if anything has changed since 2026-08-03.

Scored 2026-08-03 against contract v0.4.0 (40 checks, 14 weighted categories). Re-scored weekly via GitHub Action.

Cohort context

This site

51/100

Cohort mean

62.2/100

Cohort median

62.6/100

Delta from mean

-11.2

Why this site is scored

Org-first type system

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