4,928 web accessibility lawsuits were filed in the United States in 2025. 69% of first-half filings targeted online stores, and 64% of the companies sued had revenue under $25 million. The typical defendant is not an enterprise.
Title III of the ADA does not name a technical standard, so filed complaints and settlements consistently reference WCAG 2.1 level AA. The defects pleaded most often are narrow and repetitive: images without alternative text, unlabelled links and buttons, low contrast, unlabelled form fields, and no way to skip repeated navigation.
This scan tests those criteria on your live pages and ranks what it finds by how frequently each rule appears in filed complaints.
What this scan checks first
These are the rules that appear most often in filed accessibility complaints. Each links to the fix for Shopify.
- Images missing alternative text — 1.1.1 Non-text Content (Level A)
- Links with no discernible text — 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context) (Level A)
- Buttons with no accessible name — 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value (Level A)
- Text colour does not contrast enough with its background — 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) (Level AA)
- Form inputs with no label — 1.3.1 Info and Relationships (Level A)
- No way to skip repeated navigation — 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks (Level A)
What automated testing cannot tell you
A scan decides what is decidable from the markup. It can prove an image has no alt attribute. It cannot tell you whether the alt text you wrote actually describes the photograph. It can measure contrast; it cannot judge whether your error messages make sense to someone using a screen reader under time pressure.
We say so on every report rather than at the bottom of a terms page, because the opposite claim is what earned a competitor a $1,000,000 FTC order in January 2025.