Shopify ADA Compliance: Commonly Claimed Accessibility Issues (Reduce Your Risk) - Part 2

ADA Website Compliance expert Kris Rivenburgh covers the most common accessibility issues that put Shopify store owners at the greatest risk of being sued and outlines a strategic, data-driven approach to reducing that risk as quickly as possible. Three of the top issues are missing alternative text on images, missing programmatic form field labels, and a lack of keyboard navigability. Beyond those, there are 17 more issues that frequently appear in complaints filed in court. Shopify stores have many interactive elements and unique content spread across multiple files within a theme, and there is no on-off switch for accessibility. There is no all-in-one software that resolves everything. This is an involved, multi-phase process that takes time, and website owners who think they are just missing one obvious step need to understand that the path to conformance requires sustained effort. The video introduces the ADA compliance course, which takes a data-driven approach by analyzing the complaints filed by the most active plaintiffs' law firms and extracting the issues they claim most frequently. By fixing those issues first, store owners can reduce their litigation risk strategically rather than working through accessibility issues in random order. The more commonly claimed issues that get resolved, the lower the risk becomes. Once the most frequently claimed issues are addressed, the next step is working toward full WCAG conformance. One critical point emphasized is that fixes need to be both aggressive and correct. Working on fixes is one thing, but ensuring those fixes actually resolve the underlying accessibility issue is equally important. Some aspects of accessibility require a development background due to advanced coding requirements, and the Accessibility Tracker platform offers AI-guided assistance to help teams work through the remediation process. The strategic framework is clear: get an accessibility audit, identify all existing issues, prioritize the most commonly claimed ones, fix them correctly to bring risk down immediately, and then continue working until full WCAG conformance is reached. ADA Compliance Course: https://adacompliance.net Accessibility Tracker: https://accessibilitytracker.com Accessible.org services: https://accessible.org/services #Shopify #ADACompliance #ADALawsuits