Accessibility scanning
All access for every store
Allcess crawls your whole storefront with axe-core, then turns what it finds into a work list grouped by fix. It reads your store from the outside, so there is nothing to install.
The European Accessibility Act may apply to your store, depending on your size and where you sell. Very small businesses can be exempt. We are not a law firm, so check with someone who is.
An animated introduction to Allcess. A store address is typed in and a scan starts. The crawler works through 40 pages while the findings count climbs to 478. Those 478 findings then gather into 5 groups, one per fix. The report lists the 5 issues by severity and opens the first one, buttons with no label, to show the fix: one edit in the header template that clears it on all 40 pages. It ends with the dated PDF report and weekly re-scans whose results fall from 478 to 31.
The old way
Most accessibility tools give you a wall of findings
A scanner reports every failing element it sees. On a storefront that means hundreds of entries, most of them the same template repeating. It looks like an enormous problem and tells you nothing about where to start.
Without Allcess
478
findings, listed page by page
Forty pages to open one at a time, with no way to tell that the same header is responsible for most of it.
With Allcess
5
issues to fix, ranked by leverage
The same scan, grouped by rule. Two of the five sit in your header template, so one edit clears them across every page.
Real figures from a scan of a live Shopify storefront.
The report
What you get back
Every issue, ordered by severity, with the pages each one touches and what to change. Here it is as the PDF you can hand to whoever maintains your store.
A scroll through an exported Allcess PDF report, at double speed. It opens with a summary of 9 issues by severity and a table of the 20 pages scanned, then gives each page's findings in turn, each with its rule, severity and example elements.
How it works
From a URL to a work list
Step 1
Add your URL
We check the site is reachable before saving it. There is nothing to install on your store.
Step 2
We crawl it
A real browser loads up to 100 pages of your site and runs axe-core against each one, the same engine inside Chrome DevTools.
Step 3
You get a work list
Findings grouped by what actually needs fixing, sorted by severity, written without the jargon.
What we check
30 checks, run on every page
All of them real axe-core rules. We list what we can't catch just as plainly.
Images without a text description
image-alt
Image buttons without a label
input-image-alt
Image map areas without a label
area-alt
Links with no readable text
link-name
Buttons with no accessible label
button-name
Submit buttons with no value
input-button-name
Links only distinguished by colour
link-in-text-block
Form fields with no associated label
label
Fields with conflicting labels
form-field-multiple-labels
Dropdowns with no accessible name
select-name
Invalid autocomplete attributes
autocomplete-valid
Text with too little contrast
color-contrast
marks checks that come with written fix guidance, tailored to Shopify or WooCommerce when we detect one.
The product
Six things that make it useful
The parts that decide whether a scan turns into fixed pages.
It crawls, it doesn't sample
Most free checkers look at one URL. Allcess follows your internal links and scans up to 100 pages, so problems on product and checkout pages surface too.
Up to 100 pages per scan
Findings grouped by fix, not by page
One bad template repeats on every page. We roll findings up by rule and show how many pages each one touches, so you can see which single change clears the most.
478 findings → 5 real fixes
Fix guidance, not just rule names
Each finding comes with what to change and why it matters. When we detect Shopify or WooCommerce, the guidance names the theme files you'd actually edit.
17 rules with written guidance
A dated record you can hand over
Every scan exports to a PDF with the date, the pages covered and what was found. Useful when someone asks what you've been doing about accessibility.
PDF export on every scan
Re-scans on a schedule
Sites drift. Set a site to re-scan daily, weekly, monthly or yearly and the history builds itself, so a regression shows up as a rising line.
Daily to yearly
We scan ourselves too
Allcess runs its own scanner against this site. It found real problems in our buttons and list markup, and we fixed them before shipping this page.
Scanned in both themes
FAQ
The questions worth asking
No, and be wary of any tool that says otherwise. Automated testing catches somewhere between a third and a little over half of real accessibility problems. The rest needs a person using the site. Allcess gives you a dated record of what an automated scan found, which is evidence of effort, not a certificate of compliance.
Get started
See what's actually on your site
Add your store's address and have a full scan back in minutes.
- Crawls your whole storefront, not just the homepage
- Findings grouped by fix, not by page
- Fix guidance tailored to Shopify and WooCommerce
- A dated PDF record of every scan