10 Shopify Accessibility Apps for eCommerce Store Compliance

Shopify is one of retailers' most widely used web platforms, with over two million merchants selling their products on the platform. But the surge in use has also put Shopify store owners at increased risk of legal action from accessibility lawsuits as disability advocates and people with disabilities demand accessible online shopping experiences.

Making Shopify sites accessible is a legal requirement, yes. But meeting accessibility requirements unlocks numerous other benefits — from increasing SEO rankings to expanding your audience reach. 

So how do you make your Shopify store accessible? One way is through Shopify accessibility apps and plugins. 

Below, we’ll explore some of the top Shopify accessibility apps to help you stay compliant and improve usability for anyone who visits your store.

10 Effective Shopify Accessibility Apps

Each of the apps below integrates with your Shopify store to help improve accessibility and functionality for users with disabilities. While most offer user-facing tools like contrast controls or text resizing, others support accessibility behind the scenes by enhancing code structure or managing alt text. 

We’ll explore these tools (which are all available in the Shopify app store) in more detail below.

1. Accessibility Spark 

Accessibility Spark offers an overlay widget that adds features like text resizing, color contrast adjustments, keyboard navigation support, animation pausing, and text spacing. It’s designed to help websites meet basic accessibility needs through user-triggered tools.

2. Accessibly

Accessibly provides a customizable accessibility tool for your Shopify site, with features like font adjustments, grayscale mode, and a reading guide. It also adds accessibility attributes to your code to support screen readers and keyboard navigation. 

3. All-in-One Accessibility

All-in-One Accessibility is a widget-based tool that includes visual adjustments, screen reader support, and text-to-speech features. It helps eCommerce site owners address WCAG guidelines and includes multilingual support for global audiences.

4. Accessibility Enabler AW

Accessibility Enabler AW is an app that offers a suite of accessibility enhancements, such as zoom, contrast, screen reader compatibility, and text spacing adjustments. It includes a toolbar users can toggle on and off to customize and optimize their browsing experience.

5. WebComply ADA & WCAG

WebComply ADA and WCAG adds an accessibility widget to your Shopify site and includes automated scanning to detect potential accessibility issues. It aims to support ADA and WCAG 2.1 compliance through both user tools and backend improvements.

6. Accessibility by AppifyCommerce

Accessibility by AppifyCommerce adds a floating accessibility menu to your site, allowing shoppers to modify text size, contrast, cursor size, and more. It also offers compliance guidance and support. 

7. CodeInspire Accessibility Tool

CodeInspire’s plugin allows for common accessibility adjustments, such as color contrast, text alignment, and highlight links. It’s a lightweight widget focused on enhancing usability across your online store. 

8. Accessibility ADA CartCoders

Accessibility ADA CartCoders offers both a front-end accessibility toolbar and some code-level enhancements for Shopify themes. Features include dyslexia-friendly fonts, image alt text support, and compliance reports. 

9. Variant Alt Text King: SEO

Variant Alt Text King: SEO focuses on generating and managing alt text for product images and variants. While the structured alt text is geared toward SEO, it also supports web accessibility for screen reader users. 

10. Readabler

Readabler is a user interface tool that lets visitors adjust font size, letter spacing, contrast, and more. It also includes features like a screen mask and reading guide to assist users with visual impairments or cognitive disabilities.

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What to Expect from a Shopify Accessibility Integration

Each of the Shopify apps and plugins above is a good starting point for website accessibility. These tools, including the ones above, can add helpful user-facing tools — like color contrast controls, text resizing, and keyboard navigation support — and, in some cases, make small code adjustments that improve how well assistive technologies interact with your site. 

But while these integrations can improve usability and help you meet the accessibility standards included in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), they often fall short of delivering full accessibility. For example, a plugin might let users increase font size or toggle high-contrast mode — useful features for people with low vision — it won’t watch unlabeled form fields, inaccessible navigation menus, or missing alt text on product images. 

Put simply, most plugins rely on overlays or surface-level fixes, which don’t address deeper code-level issues or ensure that your entire digital experience — across pages, templates, apps, and content — is accessible to all users. 

Under laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the European Accessibility Act (EAA), digital accessibility is not optional. Retailers (and businesses as a whole) are expected to provide equal access to their digital storefronts — and that means meeting WCAG standards. While plugins can be a helpful part of your strategy, they aren’t enough on their own to ensure compliance with legal requirements.

True accessibility goes beyond individual plugins. It requires a more holistic approach — one that includes automated scanning, manual testing by experts, assistive technology testing, and ongoing accessibility support. 

For example, AudioEye’s Shopify integration helps you detect and fix issues across your entire digital storefront using powerful automation technology. However, AudioEye goes a step further, offering Expert Audits from accessibility experts and members of the disability community to find additional accessibility barriers that impact the user experience and increase your legal risk. Plus, with AudioEye Assurance, you’ll enjoy a level of legal protection that’s 400% better than consulting or automation-only approaches. Not only does this help bring your Shopify store into compliance, but it also ensures every visitor — regardless of ability — can interact with your brand.

With a full accessibility solution like AudioEye, the benefits of accessibility go far beyond compliance. Improving accessibility increases your site’s reach, strengthens your brand reputation, boosts SEO performance, and reduces the risk of costly litigation. More importantly, it creates a better user experience.

As you’re evaluating accessibility options, it’s critical to keep the core goal in mind: helping your site meet the principles of accessible design — it must be perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust (POUR). While plugins can support those goals in small ways, achieving full accessibility requires deeper expertise, sustained effort, and a complete accessibility solution.

Protect Your eCommerce Venture with AudioEye

Opening up your digital storefront to all users, particularly those with a disability, requires more than a quick fix. You need a full accessibility solution. While the plugins mentioned above can offer useful accessibility features, they don’t catch deeper compliance issues that can put you at risk. More importantly, they can create a confusing, frustrating, or entirely inaccessible shopping experience for users. 

Achieving real eCommerce accessibility means going deeper — testing how your site works with assistive technology, addressing code-level barriers, and continuously monitoring for new issues as your web pages, mobile apps, and content change and evolve. 

That’s where AudioEye comes in.

With our three-pronged approach to accessibility, achieving accessibility across your entire digital storefront is fast, easy, and cost-effective. From our powerful automation and human-assisted AI technology to thorough testing during the development process, AudioEye creates a barrier-free path from product discovery to purchase. 

Ready to see how accessible your store really is? Get started with a free accessibility scan. 

Want to see AudioEye’s accessibility features in action? Schedule a demo now.