AODA website compliance checker
Ontario’s Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act requires business websites to meet WCAG 2.0 AA, and private organisations with 20 or more employees file an accessibility compliance report by 31 December 2026. This check shows what your store fails today and how to fix it.
What the check covers
- WCAG 2.2 AA checks with the axe-core engine on your live pages — images without descriptions, low contrast, unlabeled form fields, missing headings, keyboard traps, focus that disappears.
- The product pages, collections and cart a shopper actually uses, on desktop and phone layouts, not just the home page.
- Search and speed findings alongside: titles and descriptions search engines read, images that load late or heavy.
- A specific fix for every finding, written for the theme you use — and for Shopify stores, the fix applied in your theme with your approval, the original saved first.
Check your store now
WCAG 2.0 and 2.2 AA findings on your live store. No signup, no card.
Free, no signup. Up to 10 pages, and most scans take 2 to 5 minutes.
On Shopify: install the app to apply the fixes with your approval
Get it onShopify App StoreAODA and websites, as of September 2026
- Web content must conform to WCAG 2.0 Level AA (excluding live captions and audio description); Ontario is expected to move the benchmark to WCAG 2.2 by 2027.
- Private and non-profit organisations with 20+ employees file an accessibility compliance report every three years; the next deadline is 31 December 2026.
- Penalties are graduated — a notice of non-compliance, then a director’s order, then administrative penalties (historically $500–15,000; the statutory maximum is $100,000 a day for corporations). The Ministry stepped up audits in 2024–25.
What you get
- A score per area and the list of findings grouped by cause, so "one faint footer link on 37 pages" is one row and one change.
- A PDF report you can hand to a developer or an agency, with the exact element and page for each finding.
- On Shopify: install the app to apply the fixes — the free plan includes 3 scans a month and 3 fixes every 30 days, no card.
Frequently asked questions
- If your organisation is in Ontario, the Integrated Accessibility Standards apply; the website requirement (WCAG 2.0 AA) applies to organisations with 50 or more employees, and the compliance report to those with 20 or more. Smaller stores are not required to file but face the same customers and the same Canadian Human Rights framework.
- The report is a self-attestation. An automated check documents the detectable failures and their fixes; some criteria still need a person to review. Keep the reports as your record of what was checked and fixed.
- Fix to 2.2 AA. It contains everything in 2.0 AA, and it is where Ontario, the EU and the courts are heading. The check reports against 2.2 and marks which criteria are new.