10 guides
Answers: “How do I make my Shopify store ADA compliant?”
A practical sequence for taking a Shopify store from unknown state to documented WCAG 2.1 AA compliance: assess, fix in priority order, verify, and maintain.
Answers: “What is WCAG 2.1 AA and how does it apply to my Shopify store?”
What WCAG 2.1 AA actually is, how the guidelines map to the parts of a Shopify store, and which criteria matter most for ecommerce.
Answers: “Do Shopify accessibility apps actually make my store compliant?”
What Shopify's accessibility apps can and cannot do, which app categories are worth installing, and where a human audit is the only tool that works.
Answers: “Which ecommerce platform is best for ADA compliance?”
How the accessibility risk differs across the three big ecommerce platforms, where each one tends to break, and what stays your responsibility on all of them.
Answers: “Is Shopify automatically ADA compliant?”
What Shopify gives you out of the box, what it explicitly leaves to you, and why 'built on Shopify' has never been a compliance defense.
Answers: “Is my Shopify store at risk of an ADA lawsuit?”
The 2025 ADA lawsuit numbers, what kind of stores get targeted, and a quick way to estimate whether yours fits the profile.
Answers: “Can my Shopify store get sued under the ADA?”
Shopify stores get sued under the ADA like any other website. Here is how these lawsuits work, who files them, what they cost, and what actually protects you.
Answers: “What are the most common WCAG accessibility failures on Shopify stores?”
A short list of the accessibility problems that show up again and again on Shopify themes, why they happen, and the quickest way to fix each one.
Answers: “Is my Shopify store ADA compliant?”
You do not need special software to spot the biggest accessibility problems on your store. Here is a fast, hands-on check you can run yourself in about ten minutes.
Answers: “How do I fix color contrast in my Shopify theme to meet WCAG?”
Low contrast is the most common accessibility failure on the web. Here is what the 4.5:1 rule really means, where Shopify themes tend to break it, and how to fix it.