EAA live in 27 EU states · ADA lawsuits +37% YoY

2,014 Shopify stores were sued for accessibility violations in the first half of 2025. Is yours next?

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✓ Free tier · no credit card · 2-minute install
✓ Code-level fixes · no storefront widget
✓ Built around ADA, EAA, and WCAG 2.1 AA risk reduction
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We'll check for 90+ WCAG 2.1 AA violations. No data stored.
L1 We scan every page for missing accessibility requirements - the technical issues cited in 90% of demand letters
L2 We check that every image, button, and form works for people who can't use a mouse
L3 We navigate your store as a blind shopper would and record what they experience
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Risk score
High lawsuit risk
23 critical accessibility violations detected across 4 key flows. Sample-based - full paid scan checks every page.
Critical Missing or meaningless alt text on product images 14 pages
Critical Form inputs without associated labels 6 instances
Serious Insufficient color contrast on CTA buttons 3 themes
Serious Keyboard focus trapped in announcement bar 1 flow
Plaintiff law firms run automated scanners across thousands of Shopify stores every day. These violations are visible to them right now. The median time between a scan and a demand letter is less than 30 days.
Why this exists
We got sued twice in eighteen months. Same plaintiff firm, second time. We had an accessibility widget the whole time - that's exactly why they found us.

I ran a Shopify store for six years. The first demand letter cost $18,400 plus legal. The second one - fourteen months later, against a different store of mine on the same theme - cost $22,000. Both stores had the popular accessibility overlay installed. The plaintiff firm specifically searched for that widget's script tag to find their next defendant.

When I went looking for a real fix, I spent months evaluating every option in the market. Widgets at $49 a month. Compliance platforms with litigation pledges. AI-powered tools claiming instant remediation. I tried most of them. Not one actually fixed the underlying code - they all put a layer over a broken site and called it compliant. That's exactly what got me sued the first time. So I built the thing none of them were.

The money was significant. But what really cost me was the time. Finding an attorney. Briefing them from scratch. Pulling together every document they needed. Back and forth over weeks. Every conversation pulled me out of the business at exactly the moment I should have been focused on it. Two lawsuits. Somewhere north of $40,000 in settlements and legal fees. And months of management time that should have gone into growing the store.

We're not lawyers. We're not promising you'll never get sued. We are promising the most thorough, honest accessibility tool the Shopify App Store has ever seen - and the only one built by people who learned this the expensive way.

Early access · Beta merchants
The free scan flagged 41 issues my old widget never mentioned. The first violation it caught was the exact thing my demand letter had cited the year before.
[ Beta tester · apparel store ] Shopify · ~$1.4M GMV
I'd been quoted $18K for a one-time human audit. AccessShield's monthly screen-reader test caught more, came with audio evidence, and cost less than my coffee budget.
[ Beta tester · home goods ] Shopify Plus · 2 stores
The auto-fix patched the alt text on 612 product images overnight. I checked the PR diff in the morning and approved it. That's the entire workflow.
[ Beta tester · DTC beauty ] Shopify · 4-person team

Quotes from early-access merchants. Names and store details withheld pending publication permission. Reach out if you'd like an intro.

The regulatory tailwind

Both sides of the Atlantic are now enforcing accessibility law.

ADA Lawsuits · H1 2025
2,014
+37% year over year, projected 5,000+ full year
EAA Enforcement
27
EU member states live since June 2025
Widget Failure Rate
22.6%
of suits hit sites that had a widget installed
Shopify Lawsuit Share
32.4%
of platform-specific ADA suits target Shopify
ADA + EAA

One product. Two regulatory regimes.

If you sell to US customers, you're exposed to ADA. If you ship a single order to the EU, you're exposed to EAA. The same audit and the same fixes cover both.

United States · ADA Title III

Lawsuits are industrialized now.

  • 2,014 federal ADA web lawsuits in H1 2025 alone
  • 67% of suits target businesses under $25M revenue
  • 32.4% of platform-specific suits land on Shopify
  • Plaintiff firms run automated fingerprinting to find targets
  • Illinois surged 746% YoY as filings spread beyond NY/CA
European Union · EAA

Enforceable in every member state.

  • Live across all 27 EU member states since June 28, 2025
  • Applies to any business selling to EU consumers, anywhere
  • Covers e-commerce websites and mobile apps
  • Penalties €500K–€3M plus product removal from market
  • France, Netherlands, Sweden already actively auditing retailers
WCAG 2.1 AA
Both ADA and EAA use WCAG 2.1 Level AA as their technical compliance standard. One audit, one set of fixes, covers both. AccessShield patches at the code level so there's nothing to maintain separately.
How it works

Three layers of audit. Automated code-level fixes.

We check your store the same three ways a disability rights attorney does - before they find it first. Most tools stop at one layer. AccessShield runs all three, then patches the theme directly.

01
Structural scan
We scan every page for missing accessibility requirements - the technical issues cited in 90% of demand letters. Missing labels, empty buttons, ARIA validation, heading order, color contrast. The baseline every tool claims to do - we actually do it right.
30–40%
coverage
02
AI vision
We check that every image, button, and form works for people who can't use a mouse. Catches what structural scanning misses: meaningless alt text, color-only information, decorative vs. functional images. Rewrites alt text into descriptions that actually convert.
+30–40%
coverage
03
Screen reader simulation
We navigate your store as a blind shopper would and record what they experience. Browse, search, add to cart, checkout - keyboard only. Every announcement is captured and analyzed. You get a timestamped report formatted for legal filing. No other Shopify app does this.
+20–30%
coverage
85–95%
of what a senior human accessibility auditor finds - automated, continuous, and built directly into your Shopify admin.
Combined
coverage
The landscape

Real remediation, not overlay theater.

Overlay widgets perform accessibility for the browser without fixing the underlying code. They can't fix keyboard traps, inaccessible forms, or semantic structure issues - the violations cited in most ADA demand letters. AccessShield writes the fix into your Shopify theme permanently. Same price as accessiBe Growth. But instead of adding a widget, AccessShield fixes the issue in your Shopify code.

What matters accessiBe AccessShield
Fixes the actual code Widget overlay only - re-applied on every page load Fixes written permanently into your Shopify theme
Leaves a lawsuit target on your site Widget script = plaintiff targeting signal (22.6% of suits) No widget. No footprint. Nothing to find.
Audit depth DOM scan only - 30–40% coverage DOM + AI Vision + Screen reader - 85–95% coverage
Alt text that stays fixed Re-applied by script on every page load Written into your theme permanently
Pricing as your store grows Triples at 30K visits/month Flat rate regardless of traffic
Shopify-native build Script tag integration Built for Shopify admin
FTC enforcement history Fined $1M in 2025 for false compliance claims Clean
No separate developer to implement fixes Widget doesn't touch code - merchant still needs a developer Fixes written automatically into your Shopify theme
What accessiBe customers discovered
"Don't get trapped in the 'litigation Support' package. It's 100% useless. They take your money and give you no results." - Verified TrustPilot review, accessibe.com
"In truth, [accessiBe] provides no substantive legal support. A business that faces a lawsuit must then spend thousands of dollars on legal fees to defend against the very lawsuit from which [accessiBe] promised to shield." - Class action complaint, Tribeca Skin Center v. AccessiBe, SDNY 2024
800+ businesses using accessibility widgets were sued in 2023–2024. Courts have consistently rejected overlay installation as evidence of ADA compliance. Source: TestParty research, UsableNet 2024
Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when you want auto-fixes.

Billed through Shopify. Cancel anytime. First scan is always free.

Layer 1 only
Free
See your risk. No commitment.
$0 /forever
 
  • One-time structural scan (Layer 1)
  • Risk score + letter grade
  • Top 3 violation categories
  • No auto-fix
  • No AI vision or screen reader
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Layers 1 + 2
Scan
See exactly what plaintiff firms can see.
$588 /yr
$49/mo equivalent · 2 months free
  • Monthly automated scan - every violation found, categorised by severity
  • Layer 2 AI Vision - catches what structural scanning misses
  • Full violation report in plain English with legal risk context per issue
  • Prioritised fix list - what to tackle first based on lawsuit exposure
  • Automatic alert within 24 hours if a theme update introduces new violations
  • Live accessibility statement, always up to date
  • Nothing touched on your store - you or your developer acts on the report
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Layers 1 + 2
Fix
Automated fixes written into your theme. Nothing to manage.
$1,490 /yr
$124/mo equivalent · same price as accessiBe Growth
  • Everything in Scan
  • Automated fixes written directly into your Shopify theme code - not a widget, not an overlay
  • No separate developer needed - fixes are written automatically
  • Rollback available instantly if anything looks wrong
  • 48-hour notice before any fix is applied to your store
  • Every product image gets a description permanently written into your theme
  • Monthly compliance cycle - audit, fix, verify, report
  • Automatic re-scan triggered within 24 hours of any theme change
  • Post-fix verification scan confirms every issue is resolved
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Layers 1 + 2 + 3
Prove
Show your attorney everything found, fixed, and verified.
$3,990 /yr
$333/mo equivalent · same price as accessiBe Scale
  • Everything in Fix
  • Layer 3 screen reader simulation - monthly audit navigated as a blind shopper would experience it
  • Screen reader audit report with timestamped findings - formatted for legal filing
  • Timestamped fix log - every fix logged with date and verification scan result
  • Monthly compliance report with full fix history - formatted for your attorney
  • We tell you exactly what to say if you receive a legal threat
  • Documentation your lawyer can file as evidence of good-faith compliance
  • Priority re-scan within 4 hours of any theme change
  • Priority fix deployment within 48 hours of detection
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Already received a demand letter? The Prove annual plan gives you 12 months of documented compliance history from day one, plus a demand letter response template within 24 hours.
Questions

Frequently asked.

No tool can legally guarantee compliance - and anyone who claims they can is lying to you (and probably about to get fined by the FTC). AccessShield materially reduces your legal risk by catching 85–95% of WCAG 2.1 AA violations and patching what can be fixed in code. We give you the audit trail, the fixes, and the documentation. Your lawyer decides what to do with it.
No. Every Liquid patch is applied to a duplicate of your live theme first. You preview the changes in Shopify's theme editor before anything goes live. Every patch is reversible with one click. We run a post-patch scan to verify nothing regressed.
A widget is a JavaScript overlay that sits on top of your site. It doesn't fix the underlying code - it draws a toolbar over it. Plaintiff attorneys specifically target sites with widgets (22.6% of 2025 ADA suits hit widget-equipped stores). AccessShield patches the actual Liquid, the actual HTML, the actual script tags - so the accessibility issues are gone, not hidden.
Yes. The Fix tier and above include a demand-letter response template and a complete audit evidence package - the documentation your attorney needs to respond. The Prove tier gives you 12 months of documented compliance history from day one. For active matters, contact us the day the letter arrives - speed matters.
Structural scans check the code. A real screen reader audit checks the experience. We navigate your store by keyboard only - browse, search, add to cart, checkout - and record every announcement and interaction. You get a timestamped report formatted for legal filing, and your lawyer gets evidence of active, good-faith remediation. No other Shopify app does this. Available on the Prove tier.
The accessiBe litigation pledge does not pay legal fees, settlement costs, or provide legal advice. It only triggers if you lose in court - 97% of cases settle, so it rarely if ever pays out. A class action complaint (Tribeca Skin Center v. AccessiBe, SDNY 2024) documented a merchant who was sued despite having accessiBe installed, contacted them for promised support, and received a copy of the same automated scan report they already had. AccessShield doesn't offer a litigation pledge. What we offer is an actual audit trail - timestamped fixes, screen reader simulation reports, and documentation your attorney can use - which is what actually matters in a demand letter response.
Traditional annual audits cost $15K–$50K, produce a static report that's out of date within weeks, and require you to hire a developer separately to implement fixes. AccessShield scans continuously, fixes automatically, and generates your compliance documentation every month - for less than the cost of a single traditional audit. Continuous AI monitoring does what a $20,000 annual audit can't: it never sleeps, never misses a theme update, and never goes stale.
Yes - billing is handled through Shopify, so cancellation is a single click from your Shopify admin. Annual plans are prepaid; refunds follow Shopify's policy.
Today, yes - AccessShield is a Shopify-native app. Auto-fixes work by editing your Liquid theme directly. If you're on Shopify Plus or basic Shopify, you're supported. Other platforms are on the roadmap.
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