StorefrontAccess monitors how theme updates, app installs, and customizer changes affect your store's WCAG 2.2 conformance. It attributes every failure to the theme file, section, or app responsible, verifies each fix by rescan, and compiles the monthly remediation-evidence report that documents your compliance program.
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The scanner separates theme markup from app-injected markup and reports each against its source. When a reviews app ships unlabeled stars or a chat widget traps focus, the report names the app, the component, and the criterion, which turns a vague accessibility complaint into a vendor ticket with specifics attached.
Before an update, your current conformance state is the baseline. After it, a full rescan diffs every template: what the update fixed, what it broke, and which customizations were lost. The diff lands as a prioritized list, so the store is back to clean in days with every step dated and verified.
Section and block changes made in the Shopify customizer alter markup without any developer touching code. StorefrontAccess detects storefront changes and rescans affected templates automatically, so a well-meaning merch edit that breaks heading order is caught the same day it goes live.
| Capability | StorefrontAccess | Accessibility app |
|---|---|---|
| Attributes issues to theme vs app | Yes | No |
| Update-triggered full rescans | Yes | No |
| Fix verification by rescan | Yes | No |
| Monthly evidence reports | Yes | No |
| No code injected into your store | Yes | No |
| Historical compliance record | Yes | No |
The major themes ship in decent shape, but out of the box is not how stores run. Apps inject markup, merchants add sections, and theme updates change templates. Conformance is a property of your specific store on a specific day, which is why it needs monitoring rather than assumption.
Anything that renders UI: reviews, ratings, upsell and bundle widgets, subscription portals, size charts, page builders, and chat. The failures repeat across apps: unlabeled controls, missing focus states, and content screen readers cannot parse. StorefrontAccess names the responsible app for every issue it finds.
No. It scans your live storefront from the outside, the way a customer or a plaintiff's expert would experience it. Nothing is installed, injected, or proxied, so there is no performance cost, no theme modification, and nothing to remove later. Your store never runs our code.
WCAG 2.2 Level AA is the working standard courts, the DOJ, and settlement agreements reference. Level A alone leaves gaps plaintiffs exploit, and AAA is not expected of retail sites. StorefrontAccess tests AA criteria and reports your status against each criterion individually, template by template.
Some criteria, like whether alt text conveys the right meaning or link text makes sense out of context, need human judgment. StorefrontAccess queues these for a documented manual pass with a reviewer and date recorded, so the evidence file covers the criteria that automation cannot close on its own.
Every engagement starts with a free accessibility audit showing your store’s current conformance state, criterion by criterion. Ongoing monitoring is quoted per storefront after the audit, based on how many stores you run and how often you want them scanned. No long-term contract.