WideAisle

Catch accessibility defects before Shopify launch or client handoff.

WideAisle is validating an automated accessibility preflight for Shopify agencies and independent theme developers. Public requests and self-serve checkout are closed during private validation.

View a sample report

Private validation in progress

The root site does not expose a pilot-request or checkout link. The no-index private-pilot request page is shared directly during controlled validation. Public intake remains closed until an accepted paid pilot has been delivered.

No app installation or store credentials are required. The scanner is limited to publicly reachable pages and identifies itself honestly. Read how it behaves.

Built for the person shipping the theme

Theme and app changes can introduce missing text alternatives, unnamed controls, unlabeled fields, insufficient contrast, and other automatically detectable defects. WideAisle turns supported scanner observations into a compact developer worklist backed by sanitized evidence and a complete appendix.

Use it before launch, redesign, migration, handoff, or a major theme or app change. It is a bounded technical preflight, not a complete accessibility evaluation or a claim that the storefront conforms to a standard.

How it works

  1. Your agency authorizes a scan of a client storefront. The preflight does not require an app install or store credentials.
  2. We check representative storefront templates. The scanner attempts one public page for each template it can discover, including home, collection, product, cart, search, and an information page, using desktop, Pixel 5 touch, and 320 CSS-pixel reflow profiles. Checkout is not assessed.
  3. The system delivers a developer-oriented structured HTML worklist. Each item links to its underlying observations, reproducible evidence, general remediation guidance, and retest instructions. A privacy-screened structural locator appears only when it is unique in capture and replay. Delivery uses an access-controlled share link.

Don't take our word for the report. Read a representative sample, generated by the same v3 HTML report renderer used for scanner-ledger reports.

Diagnostic scope

Included

  • Discoverable home, collection, product, cart, search, and information templates
  • Desktop, Pixel 5 touch, and 320 CSS-pixel reflow profiles
  • Automated violations, needs-review observations, and advisories kept separate
  • Conditional privacy-screened structural locators and sanitized evidence
  • A developer worklist, general Shopify-oriented guidance, and retest instructions
  • HTML report shared through an expiring, revocable access-controlled link

Not included

  • Checkout or password-protected pages
  • Specialist review
  • A conformance determination, certification, or legal opinion
  • Screenshots, ownership attribution, effort estimates, or remediation roadmaps
  • Automatic fixes, PDF, or monitoring

The honest part (read this)

  • Automated testing cannot evaluate every accessibility requirement. Some checks require human judgment or use of assistive technology. The report separates findings the scanner can support from items it could not decide and checks outside its scope.
  • The diagnostic is not a conformance determination. It identifies a defined subset of technical defects on representative public pages. A report with no automated findings does not establish that the store is accessible.
  • We do not sell overlay widgets. We do not inject anything into your store, and we don't issue scores, badges or certificates.
  • This is not legal advice. The diagnostic does not determine compliance with any law and is not a response to a demand letter, claim, or lawsuit.

Who you're dealing with

WideAisle is an independent, one-person software business. The preflight is generated by an automated scanner and report system. No human accessibility judgment is represented.

Common questions

Can I request a preflight now?

No. Public requests and checkout are closed during private validation. WideAisle shares the no-index request page directly with invited pilot participants.

Will you fix the issues too?

No. The report identifies automated observations and provides a structural locator only where it was uniquely verified without retaining disallowed data, plus Shopify-oriented remediation guidance. You or your existing developer decide and implement the changes.

Does it identify which theme or app caused an issue?

No. The preflight assesses rendered public pages and does not infer which theme, app, setting, platform component, or other source caused an observation.

What about checkout?

Checkout is outside this preflight's scope.

Do you cover WooCommerce?

No. The preflight is scoped to public Shopify storefronts.