Free EAA Readiness Check for Shopify Stores

The European Accessibility Act has applied to online shops selling to EU consumers since 28 June 2025. Find out in two minutes whether it applies to you, and check what your Shopify store publishes against what the Act asks for. No install, no sign-up and no email address.

This is a readiness check, not a legal opinion and not a certificate. No tool can tell you that a store meets the law. What it can do is show you, from outside, the gaps a customer, a competitor or a regulator would see first.

Step 1: Does the EAA apply to your store?

Do you sell to consumers in the European Union? (Where your business is based does not matter.) Yes No

Does your business employ fewer than 10 people? Yes No

Is your annual turnover, or your balance sheet total, EUR 2 million or less? Yes No

Based on Directive (EU) 2019/882: it covers e-commerce services to consumers, and exempts microenterprises (fewer than 10 people, and turnover or balance sheet total of EUR 2 million or less) from its service requirements. Countries implement it in their own laws, which can add detail. Read the Directive on EUR-Lex.

Step 2: Check what your store publishes

Works with any public Shopify store, including yourstore.myshopify.com. Password-protected stores cannot be read from outside.

What the EAA asks of an online shop

Requirement	What it means in practice
An accessible website and checkout	The Act points to the European standard EN 301 549, which for web content currently means WCAG 2.1 level AA. WCAG 2.2 AA includes everything in 2.1.
Information on how the service meets the requirements	Covered businesses must publish how their service meets the accessibility requirements (Article 13 and Annex V). On a web shop this is usually an accessibility statement, linked from every page.
Kept up to date	The information has to stay accurate as the store changes. A statement that names a standard, lists known problems and carries a review date shows it is maintained.
Enforcement by each country	Each EU country has a market surveillance authority that can investigate complaints and order fixes, with penalties set in national law.

What a quick check cannot see

It reads your home page, one product page and your accessibility statement as HTML. It does not use your store with a keyboard or a screen reader, complete a checkout, or judge whether your statement is true. Links added by scripts after the page loads are not seen. Use it to find the obvious gaps, then have a person test what a machine cannot.

Find, fix and keep a record

Remedy is our Shopify app. It scans your storefront in a real browser with axe-core and maps every finding to its WCAG 2.2 criterion and EN 301 549 clause. It corrects contrast, target sizes and missing image descriptions, testing each fix on your store first, and keeps a dated record of what was found, fixed and still open. It will not tell you that your store meets a law, because no software honestly can. The Audit plan is free.

See Remedy on the Shopify App Store

More free tools: all our free Shopify store checkers.

Questions

Does passing this check mean my store complies with the EAA?: No. It means none of the problems it looks for were found. Accessibility depends on how the whole store works for a person, which needs human testing. Anyone offering a tool or widget that makes you compliant is making a claim no tool can support.
My business is outside the EU. Does the EAA still apply?: If you sell to consumers in the EU and are not a microenterprise, generally yes: it is about who you sell to, not where you are based. This page is not legal advice; if the answer matters, ask a lawyer.
Is an accessibility overlay or widget enough?: No. Overlays change how a page looks after it loads; they do not fix the underlying code, and disabled users and advocacy groups widely report that they get in the way. In 2025 the US Federal Trade Commission fined an overlay vendor $1 million over claims that its product made websites compliant.
How do I write an accessibility statement?: Use the free Shopify accessibility statement generator. It writes one that names a standard, lists known issues from a quick check and has a date, and includes optional EAA wording.
Which WCAG version should I use?: EN 301 549 currently points to WCAG 2.1 level AA. WCAG 2.2 adds a few criteria and includes everything in 2.1, so working to 2.2 covers both.