I can find very little about this in Shopify documentation. What developers have you used or steps have you taken to be as ADA & WCAG compliant as possible? Will all Shopify themes become compliant by default at some point?

Wondering the same thing. Ultimately the owner of the store is responsible. I know in Denver, we had 50 lawsuits in about one week last year. I heard the average payout out was $38,000 per and they still had to go in and fix their websites. Diving into a site now and see how easy it is to get one co…

I am being sued now and need to know how to fix my site. I am not good with the web - do I need to hire outside agency to complete this for us? Very small company. Thank you.

Yes - getting a ton of soliciting emails to fix this issue. It is shame that Shopify does not make it free as other sites do.

Just did an ADA compliance check for that app and that site is not compliant :slightly_smiling_face: You really have to be careful which solution you use. :slightly_smiling_face: You can check out what we are doing over at iQMarketers.com The thing is not only does your Shopify store have to comply,…

You guys have 1 error and 36 alerts and that is just a quick scan. Might want to get those checked. It happens. :slightly_smiling_face:

From what I can find, Shopify is WCAG 2.1 compliant on all Shopify 2.0 themes in the theme store. However the newest standard seems to be WCAG 2.3, so even if you start with one of those you will likely still need to do some work to keep ahead of the curve. Also, this doesn’t apply to any content y…

I’ll start off by saying that I’m the CEO of Squidler so that there is no question about my intentions. That being said - I sincerley think Squidler.io is a good and price effective solution for checking accessibility for Shopify stores. Squidler performs continuous and fully autonomous testing of …

I just started getting emails about an ADA Non-Compliance lawsuit because of my Shopify website. Why am I responsible? I paid for a theme from Shopify. Why isn’t this a part of Shopify’s responsibility? What am I supposed to do? Please advise someone who has been through this. Any lawyer recommendat…

NoOneHere, We just received an email that we’re being sued for ADA non-compliance. Can you share info on becoming compliant? How did you go about it? Who did you hire to fix your site? Margaret It’s Nola

How to ensure ADA and WCAG compliance on my Shopify store?

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Has anyone found a good solution?

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How to ensure ADA and WCAG compliance on my Shopify store?

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