We are in the process of doing an accessibility audit and remediations. The new customer account page has 5 serious errors reported by AccessibleWed and Axe DevTools. I am surprised that I have not seen any discussion regarding this.
Here is a novel idea. With the Meta losing the lawsuit - platform policies causing harm…. Shopify is causing our small company much harm. They say we the customers are soley responsible for accessibility, yet they produce code that is NOT accessible and we have NO way of changing it. I have upload the screenshot of the page and the AxeDevTools report.
No trying to “protect” shopify’s decision here, I am unhappy myself, but to your question:
There is no discussion because there is nothing to discuss here – 4.95 meets WCAG AA criteria.
Yes, it does not not meet AAA, but AAA compliance is not a requirement usually.
WCAG AA criteria require a minimum contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 between small text and background. For large text, which is easier to see, the contrast requirement is slightly lower, 3:1, which allows the use of a more varied color palette.
WCAG AAA criteria require an enhanced color contrast ratio of at least 7:1, except for large text, where the requirement is 4.5.
To meet AAA criteria you’d need to use only high-contrast color pairs, basically black-on-white (or very light bg) only and this is a serious limitation to your site aesthetics.
