Shopify accessibility scanner · WCAG 2.2 AA

Every Shopify store has accessibility gaps. See yours in 60 seconds.

Kōkua loads your live storefront, runs axe-core against WCAG 2.2 AA, and hands back a prioritized, plain-English report with Shopify-specific fixes. Read-only — it never touches your theme. Free.

Free · instant · read-only · no install required to scan
axe-core · WCAG 2.2 AARead-only, alwaysAn app by Kahakai
Why this matters now

Accessibility lawsuits are a wave. E-commerce is the target.

5,100+
ADA web-accessibility lawsuits filed in 2025 — up ~20% year over year.
69%
of those suits target e-commerce stores specifically.
#2
Shopify's rank among platforms by lawsuit volume.
$15–50k
typical all-in cost of settling a single demand letter.

Shopify gives you an accessible foundation — but not your apps, your custom content, or your theme customizations. That's exactly where the gaps open up. And overlay widgets don't close them: the FTC fined accessiBe ~$1M in 2025 for claiming its overlay delivers compliance. The only thing that holds up is fixing the code.

How it works

Three steps. Nothing touched.

01
Connect your store
One-click install from the Shopify App Store. Kōkua asks for read-only access and nothing more — it can never write to your theme.
02
Kōkua scans
It loads your live storefront in a real browser and runs axe-core against WCAG 2.2 AA — the standard plaintiffs' audits actually cite.
03
You get a report
Every issue ranked by legal-exposure-weighted severity, in plain English, with the exact Shopify/Liquid fix and WCAG criterion. Export as PDF or Markdown for your audit trail.
What it finds

The report you'd get, on a real store.

Not a score and a shrug — the actual issues, ranked, with the fix spelled out at the theme level.

kōkua · scan of northfield-supply.myshopify.com
Read-only
Accessibility scanWCAG 2.2 AA · axe-core · 1 page
19 issue types
42 total instances
3
Critical
7
Serious
5
Moderate
4
Minor
Critical
color-contrast WCAG 1.4.3
Fix: Adjust theme color settings so text meets 4.5:1 (3:1 for large text). Watch buttons, sale badges, and text over hero images.
14 instances
Serious
image-alt WCAG 1.1.1
Fix: Add descriptive alt text to product and section images (theme editor, or image_tag with alt in Liquid). Decorative images use alt="".
22 instances
Serious
link-name WCAG 2.4.4
Fix: Give icon-only and repeated "Shop" links a discernible name — visible text or aria-label in the section snippet.
9 instances
Moderate
label WCAG 4.1.2
Fix: Associate a real <label> with each form field (search, newsletter, contact). A placeholder is not a label.
3 instances
Automated scan (axe-core) — catches roughly 30–50% of WCAG issues. Not a compliance certification; keyboard + screen-reader review is still required.
color-contrastimage-altlink-namebutton-nameform labelsheading-ordertarget-sizehtml-has-langlandmark-one-mainselect-name
Honest by design

We'd rather be useful than overstate.

Real findings, not an overlay
axe-core runs against your rendered page — not a widget bolted on top. Overlays don't fix your code, and the FTC fined accessiBe ~$1M for claiming one delivers compliance.
Not a compliance certification
An automated scan catches ~30–50% of WCAG issues. Real keyboard and screen-reader testing is still required — and Kōkua says so, plainly, in every report.
Read-only. Always.
Kōkua reads your storefront and reports. It never changes your theme. Remediation is a deliberate, separate step — with backups and your sign-off.
Fix the code, not the symptom
Every fix is written for the theme / Liquid level, where it actually holds through updates — not a runtime patch that papers over the problem.
The offer

The scan is free. The fixes are real. No overlay.

Free scan

$0
The honest picture of where you stand: full prioritized report, severity, and the WCAG criterion for every issue.
Scan your store

Monitor

$29/mo
Launch price — rising to $49/mo
Monthly re-scans, regression alerts when a theme or content change breaks something, full scan history, and an exportable audit trail.
Start with a free scan

Done for you

Let's talk
Want it actually fixed? Real, code-level remediation to WCAG 2.2 AA with a before/after audit trail — by the team that builds premium Shopify themes.
Request a fix →
Questions

The honest answers.

Does Kōkua change my theme?
No. Kōkua installs with read-only access. It loads your rendered storefront and reports what it finds — it can't and won't edit your theme.
Does a clean scan mean I'm legally compliant?
No — and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. An automated scan catches roughly 30–50% of WCAG issues. It's a strong, honest starting point and an audit trail; full compliance needs keyboard and screen-reader testing by a human.
How is this different from an overlay like accessiBe?
Overlays inject a widget that leaves your code untouched — and the FTC fined accessiBe ~$1M for claiming it delivers compliance. Kōkua finds the real issues so they can be fixed at the source.
What does it scan, and how long does it take?
Your live storefront, in about a minute. The free scan here checks your homepage; once you install Kōkua it scans your key templates too — collections, plus a representative product and collection page.
Who's behind it?
Kōkua is built by Kahakai — Jamey Warren, eleven years inside the studios that made the premium Shopify theme market. Accessibility done by someone who knows Shopify themes from the inside.

Stop guessing. See where you stand.

A free, honest accessibility scan of your Shopify store. Read-only. No overlay. No install to see your homepage results.