Product media
Missing image alternatives and controls without usable names can block product understanding and gallery navigation.
Shopify accessibility checker
Scan the storefront. Trace the issue back to content, theme or app.
ClearSite tests the live page a shopper receives, recognises Shopify storefront signals, and gives you a more useful starting point for fixing the rendered source.
Check a Shopify page freeNo Shopify app or account required for the first scan.
Built around the live storefront
A checker should show where to investigate, not just produce a score.
ClearSite runs axe-core against the rendered page, records the affected element and groups findings by severity. Shopify detection adds storefront context to the guidance; it does not claim to identify the exact Liquid file automatically.
Theme controls
Menus, drawers, filters, variant selectors and modal controls need names, states and keyboard behaviour that survive theme customisation.
Forms and checkout paths
Newsletter, contact, search and cart controls need programmatic labels and understandable errors. Test the whole journey manually as well.
Visual presentation
Low text contrast, focus visibility and content that depends on colour alone can make a polished storefront difficult to use.
Scan a representative page
Start with a product, collection, cart or high-value landing page. A homepage-only pass can miss the controls that carry the buying journey.
Use the pattern to find the source
One-page issues often sit in content. Repeated issues point towards a shared theme section, snippet, layout or app-generated component.
Re-test the rendered result
Preview the change, publish it safely, then scan the same URL again. The saved editor change is not the proof; the barrier disappearing is.
From finding to Shopify fix path
Let the repetition pattern narrow the repair.
- 01
One product or article
Check the editable content first: image alternative text, headings, links and field labels supplied by the page data.
- 02
Every product or collection
Look for a shared theme section, snippet or app block. Fixing the reusable source is safer than patching pages one by one.
- 03
Only after an app loads
Isolate the app-generated component, confirm the issue on the rendered page, then update, configure or replace that component.
- 04
Cart or checkout journey
Treat a clean single-page scan as the start. Complete keyboard and assistive-technology checks across the full buying task.
What a Shopify scan cannot prove
Automated testing cannot decide whether alternative text is useful, whether a keyboard journey feels coherent, or whether the whole purchase flow works with assistive technology. It also cannot turn a passing page into a legal compliance determination.
Use the scan as a repeatable diagnostic: fix machine-detectable barriers, then add manual keyboard, screen-reader and task-based review for important customer journeys.
This boundary follows W3C WAI guidance on accessibility evaluation tools. Read the broader website accessibility scanner workflow for the complete testing limits.
Start with a product page shoppers actually use.
Scan it free, fix the shared source where possible, and verify the rendered result.
Run the Shopify accessibility check