10 guides
Answers: “What are the ADA compliance requirements for US businesses?”
The pillar guide to ADA compliance for US businesses: what the law requires, who it covers, what standard applies to websites, how enforcement works, and where to start.
Answers: “What is the difference between WCAG 2.2 and 2.1 for online stores?”
What WCAG 2.2 added and removed compared to 2.1, which of the new criteria actually affect online stores, and which version you should target today.
Answers: “What does a professional accessibility audit include?”
The anatomy of a professional accessibility audit: what gets tested, what a finding contains, and how to tell a real report from a rebranded scanner dump.
Answers: “Why can't automated tools find all accessibility issues?”
Where the ~70% figure comes from, what automated scanners can and cannot detect, and why the undetectable share contains the issues that matter most.
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: “Do accessibility overlay widgets make my website ADA compliant?”
The technical reasons accessibility overlays cannot deliver WCAG compliance, what the FTC and the accessibility community have said, and what to do instead.
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.
A plain-language walkthrough of the accessibility checks that matter most for ecommerce, why they map to ADA Title III risk, and how to prioritize fixes.
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: “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.