Accessly — Help & Guide

Scan your Shopify store for accessibility issues, fix them, and show your good-faith effort — without an overlay and without false compliance promises.

What Accessly does

Accessly crawls your store’s key pages (home, a product, a collection, cart) and checks them against WCAG 2.2. It returns a 0–100 score and a prioritized list of the issues software can detect — each with a plain-English fix. It can also write missing image alt text, generate a hosted accessibility statement, and re-scan on a schedule.

Important — how to read your score: automated checks catch an important slice of WCAG, but not all of it. A clean scan meaningfully reduces your ADA/EAA risk, but it is not a guarantee of legal compliance. Accessly always shows the manual checks that still need a human.

Getting started

Install Accessly from the Shopify App Store and open it from Apps in your admin.
Run a scan. On the Scan page, click Run scan. In a few seconds you’ll get a scored report grouped by severity (Critical, Serious, Moderate, Minor).
Work the list. Each issue names the WCAG criterion, the page it was found on, and how to fix it. Start at the top — Critical and Serious issues first.
Re-scan after you make changes to confirm the fixes landed.

If your dev/store storefront is password-protected, the scanner only sees the password page. Remove the password (or scan once the store is live) for a real report.

Fixing image alt text

Missing image alt text (WCAG 1.1.1) is one of the most common ADA complaints. The Alt text page lists product images with no alt text and a starting suggestion you can edit. On Pro, click Save to write it straight back to the product — no theme editing.

Publishing an accessibility statement

Auditors and plaintiff’s attorneys look for a published accessibility statement — it shows good-faith effort and gives visitors a way to report barriers. On the Statement page, fill in your store name, a contact email, and your conformance target (WCAG 2.2 AA), then enable it. Accessly hosts it at /apps/accessly/statement on your own domain.

Monitoring (Pro)

Accessibility drifts every time you change a theme or install an app. Turn on monitoring in Settings to re-scan on a weekly or monthly schedule and get an email when new issues appear or a fix regresses.

Accessly Essentials (optional theme add-on)

Essentials is an optional theme toggle for genuinely-safe, universally-helpful front-end fixes — not an overlay or accessibility toolbar. Enable it under Online Store → Themes → Customize → App embeds → Accessly Essentials:

Skip to content — a keyboard link that jumps past the header (WCAG 2.4.1).
Visible focus outlines — so keyboard users can see where they are (2.4.7).
Respect reduced motion — honors the visitor’s “reduce motion” system setting (2.3.3).

Plans & usage

Free — full-site scan, scored report, prioritized fixes, and the accessibility statement generator. One scan per month.
Pro ($9.99/mo, 7-day free trial) — unlimited scans, scheduled monitoring, AI alt-text writing, email alerts, and no Accessly link on your statement.

Frequently asked questions

Is this an overlay?

No. Accessly finds and helps you fix issues at the source. Overlays are widely criticized and stores using them are still sued — Accessly deliberately isn’t one.

Does a clean scan mean I’m compliant?

No. It means the automatically-detectable issues are handled, which reduces risk. Full compliance also needs manual review (contrast over images, keyboard flows, screen-reader testing) — Accessly flags those.

Does scanning affect my storefront speed?

No. Scanning runs inside the app, not on your live store.

What pages does it scan?

Your home page, a representative product and collection, and the cart — the templates most of your traffic sees.

Need more help?

Email support@dropfeed.io — we typically reply within 1–2 business days.

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