What should a Shopify accessibility audit include?

A useful Shopify accessibility audit covers every template and the complete purchase path, not just the homepage. It combines automated checks with keyboard and screen reader testing, records the affected element and WCAG criterion, names the likely theme or app component, ranks severity, and includes a verification step after each repair.

Pages and states to test

Test collections, products, search, account pages, cart drawers, forms, modals, menus, and error states. Variant selection and cart interactions matter because a defect there can stop a customer from buying.

What the report should hand developers

Each issue needs a reproducible URL, selector, expected behavior, actual behavior, criterion, severity, and repair guidance. A vague score is not a fix list, and a fix list without a rescan is not evidence.