WideAisle

An automated accessibility diagnostic for your Shopify theme.

WideAisle checks representative public storefront templates on desktop and mobile and organizes supported WCAG 2.1 A/AA findings, affected elements, evidence, and Shopify-oriented remediation guidance.

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Public service is currently unavailable

WideAisle is not accepting scan requests or payments. No public diagnostic is queued from this website.

When the service is made available, it will produce an automated diagnostic and an access-controlled share link. It will not include specialist review, certification, legal advice, or a conformance determination.

The scanner is limited to publicly reachable pages and identifies itself honestly. Read how it behaves.

What the diagnostic is for

Storefront themes and apps can introduce barriers such as images without useful text alternatives, unnamed icon controls, unlabeled form fields, and text with insufficient contrast. These defects can make browsing or buying harder for people using screen readers, keyboards, or magnification.

The diagnostic turns the issues that automated checks can identify into a prioritized worklist for the person who maintains your Shopify theme. It is a technical starting point, not a complete accessibility evaluation or a claim that the store conforms to a standard.

How it works

  1. You authorize a scan of a public storefront. The diagnostic 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, on desktop and mobile. It attempts the first checkout step when the store allows it.
  3. The system builds a report your developer can work through. Findings are ordered by severity and include affected selectors and markup for DOM-based findings, WCAG references, Shopify-oriented remediation guidance, and screenshots where visual evidence is useful and capture succeeds. Delivery uses an access-controlled share link.

Don't take our word for the report. Read a representative sample, generated by the same report pipeline that will scan your store.

Diagnostic scope

Automated diagnostic

  • Representative public storefront templates attempted on desktop and mobile, with completion recorded
  • Automated WCAG 2.1 A/AA findings, prioritized by severity
  • Affected selectors and markup for DOM-based findings
  • Evidence screenshots where useful and available
  • Shopify-oriented remediation guidance and a prioritized roadmap
  • Web report shared through an access-controlled link

Public ordering is currently unavailable. This page does not quote a price or delivery commitment.

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 don't sell overlay widgets. We don't 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 diagnostic is generated by an automated scanner and report system; no specialist accessibility review is performed. We also run the scanner against this website.

Common questions

Can I request or buy a diagnostic now?

No. Public scan requests and checkout are currently unavailable.

Will you fix the issues too?

No. The report identifies automated findings and provides affected selectors and markup where the finding is tied to a DOM element, plus Shopify-oriented remediation guidance. You or your existing developer decide and implement the changes.

My store uses a paid theme, or an agency built it. Still relevant?

Yes. Most findings live in theme settings and section markup that vary store by store, and paid themes ship with the same icon-button and contrast problems as free ones.

What about checkout?

On standard Shopify plans the checkout is hosted by Shopify, so most of it is outside your control. We scan the first checkout step where the store lets us reach it (some themes require choosing a size before anything can go in the cart), and the report says plainly whether checkout was scanned and which items are yours to fix versus Shopify's.

Do you cover WooCommerce?

No. The diagnostic is scoped to public Shopify storefronts.