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Your accessibility widget is not an accessibility fix.
We load your storefront exactly as it is served, work out which overlay vendor you are paying (accessiBe, UserWay, EqualWeb, AudioEye and a dozen more), and then count the code-level defects the overlay never touched — images with no alt, fields with no label, buttons with no name. The European Accessibility Act has applied since 28 June 2025.
Based on publicly available data only. Informational, not legal advice.
What this checks
- Which overlay widget is installed — accessiBe, UserWay, EqualWeb, AudioEye, Purple Lens, Max Access and 10 more
- Overlay leftovers in the HTML itself: vendor iframe ids, widget class names, “Accessibility Menu” aria-labels
- Images served with no alt attribute at all, counted against every image on the page
- Form fields with no label, and buttons and links that reach a screen reader with no name
- A skip-to-content link, the lang attribute on <html>, and whether the viewport meta blocks pinch-zoom
- Whether an accessibility statement is linked from the storefront and actually loads
FAQ
I already pay for an overlay. Doesn't that cover me?
No standard or regulator recognises a widget as compliance. EN 301 549 — the harmonised standard behind the EAA — points at WCAG 2.1 AA, which is about the code that gets served. A widget runs on top of that code; it does not change it. In January 2025 the US FTC announced a settlement requiring accessiBe to pay $1 million over claims that its widget could make a site WCAG-compliant.
Why do some checks say “could not tell”?
We read the HTML your server returns; we do not run JavaScript. If your theme builds its images, forms or navigation in the browser, there is nothing for us to count and we say so instead of inventing a number.
Is this a full WCAG audit?
No, and nothing automated is. A static scan catches maybe a third of WCAG failures — colour contrast, focus order, keyboard traps, screen-reader flow and error handling all need a person with a keyboard and a screen reader. Treat a clean result as “no obvious machine-detectable defects”, not as “accessible”.
Want the overlay taken out and the theme actually fixed?
We are a Shopify studio. The audit is free; the fix is yours to make — or ours to ship.