WooCommerce stores fail differently from Shopify stores. The defects usually come from the theme and from plugins rather than from Woo itself: page-builder blocks that emit headings out of order, quick-view plugins that duplicate ids across the page, star ratings drawn in CSS with no accessible name, and checkout field labels replaced by placeholders.
This checker runs the same engine used by browser devtools — axe-core — against your live pages, then maps each rule failure to the WooCommerce template you would override in a child theme.
Because much of what fails comes from plugins, the report distinguishes what you can fix in your own theme from what has to be raised with a plugin vendor.
What this scan checks first
These are the rules that appear most often in filed accessibility complaints. Each links to the fix for WooCommerce.
- 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.