Perceivable

Find what makes your store unusable, before a regulator does.

Accessibility auditing for Shopify, measured against EN 301 549 and WCAG 2.1 level AA, the standard the European Accessibility Act applies.

The app is already open. You are seeing the public site inside the Shopify admin. There is nothing to install here.

Go to the audit

The address you sign in to your Shopify admin with, ending in .myshopify.com.

What it finds

Images announced as “IMG_4180.jpg”

SERIOUS

Shopify fills alt text in from the uploaded filename, so a screen reader reads out the filename instead of describing the product. Other checkers pass these, because the attribute technically exists.

Variant swatches a keyboard cannot reach

CRITICAL

Built from plain divs, they are skipped entirely by the Tab key. The customer cannot select a size, which means they cannot buy the product at all.

Focus indicators deleted by the theme

SERIOUS

Navigating by keyboard with no visible focus ring is like using a mouse with an invisible cursor. Themes often remove it to look tidier.

How it differs

It is not an overlay widget. Overlays inject JavaScript after the page loads, while screen readers read the underlying document. Courts have declined to accept them as evidence of conformance, and in 2025 the US Federal Trade Commission fined one vendor $1M over its compliance claims.

Perceivable changes nothing on your storefront. It reads your code and reports what it finds, down to the theme file and the line.

What it will not claim

Automated testing reaches roughly a third of WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria. The rest needs a person.

This app will never tell you your store is compliant, because no tool honestly can. It tells you what is broken, what each fault has to satisfy to pass, and gives you the documentation showing you are acting on it.

Scanning is free. $29/month or $290/year unlocks what each finding requires, where in the theme it originates, and the compliance documents.