SevirantaShopify accessibility
Make your Shopify store truly accessible. EAA & WCAG, without an overlay
Shopify is powerful, but not accessible by default: themes, apps and your checkout introduce silent barriers. We find them and deliver the fix in your own Liquid code, no widget that slows your site down.
What Seviranta does for Shopify
Where the barriers hide
Themes, extensions and forms introduce silent barriers. We find every one of them.
The fix in the source, not on top of it
Concrete repairs in your Liquid theme, not an overlay layer that only hides the errors.
No widget, no slowdown
We crawl externally from EU servers, 0% impact on your load speed and Core Web Vitals.
Ready for the EAA
Tested against WCAG, at the level that regulators test against.
The truth: Shopify is not accessible by default
A default Shopify Online Store 2.0 theme like Dawn or Sense scores better than many webshops, but rarely meets WCAG 2.2 AA on its own. The moment you install apps, customise your theme or add products without alt text, barriers appear that your customers, and the European Accessibility Act, won't accept.
What's really at stake
- An inaccessible checkout is a direct EAA violation.
- An accessibility widget doesn't count as a structural fix.
- Regulators test the generated HTML, including your apps.
- 'We use Shopify' is not a legal defence: responsibility sits with the live webshop, not the platform.
What waiting can cost you
up to € 1,000,000
EU maximum · Spain/Luxembourg
$ 4,000
US · California (Unruh), per visit
You won't be fined out of the blue, first comes a remediation order with a deadline. But whoever can show a dated record at that moment walks away cheapest.
See what applies to your target market →The hidden risk of third-party Shopify extensions
Review widgets, filters, bundlers and search apps inject dynamic HTML into your frontend. In an audit that code counts in full, even though you didn't write it. That's why Seviranta scans the final result the way a regulator sees it: your Shopify theme plus all apps and dynamic content.
What commonly goes wrong on Shopify
- The AJAX cart drawer traps keyboard focusWhen a customer adds an item, the cart drawer slides in. In many Shopify themes focus stays trapped inside it, so keyboard and screen-reader users can no longer reach the checkout button.
- Predictive search without aria stateThe AJAX search suggestions often lack aria-expanded and a live region, so a screen reader never announces that results have appeared.
- Colour swatches and filters without stateVariant swatches and collection filters regularly miss aria-checked or aria-expanded, the user (and the machine) can't tell which filter or colour is active.
- Liquid images without alt textAuto-generated Liquid img tags often pass the alt text from the Shopify admin through empty or cryptic, unreadable for screen readers and Google.
What a real fix looks like
Take the cart icon button in your Liquid theme. Without an accessible name, a screen-reader user only hears 'button'. The fix is one attribute, no rebuild:
<button class="cart-toggle">
{% render 'icon-cart' %}
</button><button class="cart-toggle" aria-label="{{ 'general.cart.title' | t }}">
{% render 'icon-cart' %}
</button>What you get
Per issue: what, why and how
For every finding you see what's wrong, who it affects, which WCAG rule applies and a concrete, Shopify-aware fix, with a code example where possible.
Platform-specific detection
Our engine recognises the issues that arise specifically on Shopify, not just the generic WCAG checks.
A record that holds up
A dated overview of your scans and findings that you can show at an audit or inspection.
With a reporting tool you pay the licence and your developers to fix the issues. With Seviranta the fix is included, no double bill.
Protect your conversion and your legal standing
An app that slaps an accessibility icon over your Shopify site is a risk to your business. The facts:
Shopify accessibility widgets
- Load extra external scripts that hurt your load speed (LCP) and therefore your conversion.
- Mask the issue instead of fixing it, the underlying code stays broken.
- Don't protect you from claims. The FTC fined overlay vendor accessiBe $1 million in 2025 for misleading compliance claims.
The Seviranta approach
- 0% impact on your load speed, we scan externally from our EU servers.
- We fix the real source code of your Shopify templates.
- Automatically builds your retainable EAA compliance record.
Questions and answers
- Is a Shopify accessibility widget enough for the EAA?
- No. A widget puts a layer over your site, but doesn't repair the underlying code and doesn't count as structural compliance.
- Does my Shopify checkout fall under the EAA?
- Yes. The checkout and navigation are explicitly part of the obligation under WCAG 2.1 AA.
- Does Seviranta also scan my Shopify apps?
- Yes. We test the final generated HTML, theme plus apps, the way a regulator does.
- Will this slow my Shopify site down?
- No. We scan externally from our EU servers; no script goes on your site. 0% impact on your load speed and Core Web Vitals.
We do it ourselves too
Our own site scores 0 issues in the same engine we scan your Shopify store with. We promise no 100%, the machine catches the reliably-automatable part, human review fills the rest, but you don't have to take our word for it: see a real example report.
What the EAA asks of your Shopify store
Since June 2025 your webshop must meet WCAG 2.1 AA, a Shopify store is no exception. The free scan shows in 60 seconds where you stand, with the exact line that fails.
Selling in more than one country?
WCAG is the global standard. Almost every market builds on it:
Fix your Shopify store once to WCAG and you cover the technical bar across all those markets. What differs per market is the enforcer and the fines.
See what applies per target market →Manage several Shopify sites for clients?
Stop the stores you ship from becoming an EAA liability for your clients. Use Seviranta as your automated quality stamp on every handover and deploy, one scan, and every site is demonstrably in order.
See our partner programme →Scan your Shopify store free
Paste your Shopify URL into the free scan and see within a minute which lines fail, with the exact spot in your theme.