EU Accessibility Act / WCAG 2.1 AA for Shopify

Make your store accessible — audit, fix at the source, document.

The EU Accessibility Act requires your storefront to meet WCAG 2.1 AA. Access Proof audits your key rendered pages, fixes issues at the source — starting with AI alt-text written back to your images — and exports an evidence report. We do not sell an overlay.

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TOOLING — NOT LEGAL ADVICE The accessibility score measures how many WCAG 2.1 AA checks pass — it is not legal advice and does not guarantee WCAG or EAA compliance; no tool can. Install from the Shopify App Store — Access Proof runs inside your Shopify admin.

How it works

Audit

1

Access Proof fetches your key rendered storefront pages — 4 per run, up to 25 on Scale — and scores them against WCAG 2.1 AA, the standard the EU Accessibility Act relies on. No orders or customer data.

Fix at the source

2

The flagship fix is alt text: grounded AI describes the actual product image, you review it, and we write it back to the real image — persistent and reversible. Structural issues come with the page they're on, the WCAG reference and a one-line fix to apply in your theme yourself.

Document

3

Download an EAA/WCAG evidence report (CSV) of what was found and fixed — honest tooling, not a compliance badge.

What we check

A run fetches 4 key pages (home, collection, cart, search) — up to 25 including real product pages on the Scale plan — and scores each of them against the WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria below, weighted by severity: critical issues (like missing alt text) cost the most. The image alt-text scan walks up to 500 products of your catalogue separately. Colour contrast needs a full browser render, so it is not covered and needs human review.

Images without alt text

critical

Form fields without a label

serious

Links / buttons with no name

serious

Page language & title missing

serious

Zoom disabled in the viewport

serious

Heading order, skip link, IDs

moderate
Read the full breakdown

Why not an overlay?

Overlay widgets can't fix broken HTML — and in 2025 the US FTC fined an overlay vendor $1,000,000 for claiming its widget made sites WCAG-compliant. Accessibility plaintiffs specifically target overlay-only stores. Access Proof writes the fix into your real product images instead, tells you what to change in your theme yourself, and reports honestly.