ADA Monitor

Live accessibility operations · Built for Shopify

Accessibility that keeps up with your Shopify store.

New theme, new app, new campaign — every change can quietly break accessibility. ADA Monitor watches your store, drafts the fixes it can safely make, and brings you the judgment calls. You approve what goes live.

you approve everything before it ships · no overlay widget · or get a free scan first

Illustration of the ADA Monitor workflow: a scan of a product page finds three issues — missing image alt text, an unlabeled cart button, and low banner contrast. Two fixes are prepared in an unpublished theme and verified after approval; the contrast decision is routed to the merchant's team. Every step is recorded.

monitoring: scheduled + change-triggered checks mapped to WCAG 2.2 A/AA fixes prepared in an unpublished theme your approval rules decide what moves every applied change re-checked audit history retained third-party issues flagged honestly no overlay · no visitor-facing widget

The evidence

The Shopify baseline

75errors

Average ADA compliance errors on a Shopify home page — 34% above the all-site average

Source: WebAIM Million 2026.

ADA Monitor

80%autofixed

Eligible issues scanned, fixed and verified — live the moment you approve

Approximate potential coverage of supported fix categories based on your theme.

Time and cost

Spend less time and money on the same fixes.

Cost ($) Time Through your
release cycle
With ADA Monitor
Every accessibility fix that goes through a release cycle costs the same way twice.

Scoping, development, testing, business sign-off, a deploy slot — then your storefront changes again and the next batch of findings starts the same journey. The spend does not level off, because the work never stops arriving.

ADA Monitor flattens it. The scan, the drafting and the verification never touch your release cycle. What you spend per round is the few minutes it takes to review and approve — plus the handful of findings that genuinely need a person, which we name for you up front.

~80%

product target — supported fix categories About 80% of eligible automated findings can be prepared for review in supported Shopify themes — so most fixes take the flatter line. Not a guaranteed result for every store; design judgment, third-party code, and manual-test work stay on the human path.

The operating layer

Built like an operations system. Because that's what it is.

Not a widget. Not a PDF of problems. A system that finds issues, drafts fixes, asks the right person, and keeps the receipts.

Draft theme · exact diff

Fixes prepared at the source

Eligible fixes are written into an unpublished copy of your live theme — real Liquid, not a runtime patch. You preview the exact change, approve it, and publish on your schedule.

Shopify-native context

One fix, everywhere it matters

One defective snippet can break forty pages. Findings are mapped to the shared Liquid source, so a single prepared change can resolve the whole family — not one ticket per page.

Your call

Human judgment, by design

Contrast, layout, and brand decisions are never auto-changed. They arrive as clear decisions with evidence and options — yours to make.

Flagged · vendor owns this

Honest about third parties

Issues inside embedded apps we can't safely change are flagged with the owner and a suggested next step — never silently ignored.

Change-aware

Rescans when your store changes

Shopify webhooks trigger targeted rescans of what changed, on top of your scheduled monitoring. New barriers get caught while they're new.

One connected record

Every issue has evidence. Every change has an approval. Every tested outcome has a record.

Competitor widgets vs. ADA Monitor

Competitors decorate the page with an overlay. We repair the theme.

How competitor widgets work

Most accessibility apps inject a runtime widget that layers adjustments over your storefront. The underlying theme code stays exactly as it was — issues and all.

  • Your Liquid and markup remain unchanged underneath
  • Depends on a third-party script loading for every visitor
  • Little durable evidence of what actually got fixed

Applied with your approval · re-checked ✓

How ADA Monitor works

ADA Monitor prepares changes to your theme source in an unpublished copy, shows you the exact diff, verifies the result after release, and keeps the record.

  • Real changes to your theme, applied under your rules
  • Nothing injected into your customers' experience
  • Evidence, approval, and verification retained for every change
Worth knowing: in UsableNet's mid-2025 dataset, 659 of 2,019 tracked digital-accessibility lawsuits involved companies whose sites had a detected accessibility widget — having one didn't, by itself, establish conformance. And in April 2025 the FTC finalized a $1M order over claims that an automated product could make any website WCAG-compliant. We build — and talk — accordingly: no tool, including ours, makes a store "compliant."

Human in the loop

ADA Monitor prepares. Your team decides.

Safe fixes move on rules you set. Judgment calls stay with people.

Type of workADA Monitor preparesYour team decidesHow it closes
Alt text & labels
Prepared
Proposed wording and the draft-theme change
Approve, edit, or cover it with an approval rule
Affected pages re-checked; result recorded
Color, layout & brand
Routed
Evidence, affected pages, and options
The brand treatment — always a human call
Human review recorded in the history
Structure & navigation
Prepared
Grouped findings; markup fixes where eligible
Release timing and scope
Verified against the relevant checks
Third-party apps
Flagged
Owner, impact, and a suggested next step
Vendor escalation or a specialist path
Decision and outcome saved

Why merchants run it

What changes for the business.

Compliance stops being a fire drill

New barriers become organized work with owners, evidence, and next steps — not an annual audit surprise.

Your developers get their sprints back

Prepared fixes at the shared source replace ticket piles. One approved change can resolve an issue across every affected page.

You can answer the question

"What are we doing about accessibility?" now has an answer with receipts: what was found, what changed, who approved it, how it was verified.

More customers can actually buy

More than one in four U.S. adults reports having a disability. Barriers on the path to checkout cost real revenue — removing them is just good retail.

The honest part, up front. Automated testing can identify many important barriers, but it cannot determine complete WCAG conformance or replace qualified human review and usability testing with disabled people. ADA Monitor supports an ongoing program of monitoring, remediation, verification, and evidence — it is not a certification, and nobody can truthfully sell you "guaranteed compliance." If a vendor promises that, ask for their evidence. Ours ships with every number we publish.

Start your trial

See it running on your store this week.

Connect your store and get your first report in plain English: what's drafted and waiting for your approval, what needs your call, and what sits with your apps. Prefer a look before connecting? Get a free scan first.

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15 days · you approve everything before it ships · continues in your Shopify admin