The small fish that keeps your shop accessible.accessible.

No. SiteRemora works inside your code, the way a developer would. Your storefront looks exactly as you designed it: every change goes into the theme or the catalog, approved by you or by the autopilot rules you switch on, and your visitors see only the fixed page.

Take it seriously, and keep your money in your pocket on day one. Four steps: (1) send the letter to an attorney who handles ADA Title III website cases within a few days, since most letters set a 14 to 30 day response window; (2) preserve evidence by screenshotting the pages named in the letter before you change anything; (3) run a real scan of your storefront and start fixing the actual code, documenting every change with a date; (4) respond through counsel by the deadline. Demand letters typically open at $5,000 to $25,000, and businesses that show prompt, documented remediation usually settle for far less than the opening number. SiteRemora gives you the scan and the dated fix history for step three; your attorney handles the rest. The longer version is the demand-letter guide, and what a good-faith record looks like covers what to have ready.

In practice, yes if you sell to U.S. customers. Courts have consistently treated e-commerce sites as places of public accommodation under ADA Title III, and courts treat “I use Shopify” as beside the point: Shopify provides the platform, and your theme, your content, and your installed apps are your responsibility. If you also sell to consumers in the EU, the European Accessibility Act has applied since 28 June 2025. The standard both point to is WCAG 2.1 AA. The full answer, with what Shopify covers and what is yours, is in Is Your Shopify Store ADA Compliant?.

SiteRemora runs automated checks based on WCAG 2.1 AA, the version referenced by ADA case law, the Department of Justice web rule, and the European Accessibility Act through EN 301 549. Automated checks cover part of the standard, and some criteria always need a person. It fixes the most common failures directly in your theme and catalog: missing alt text, unlabeled buttons and form fields, skipped heading levels, missing landmarks and skip links, a missing page language, and lists and empty headings inside your pages. Contrast is fixed at a color you choose, starting from the nearest passing shade of your own.

Good scanners exist. The unsolved problem is what happens after the scan: writing the alt text, adjusting the tokens, fixing the labels, and keeping it clean as the store changes. SiteRemora scans continuously and applies the fixes in the theme code, so the report reads as a list of things already done.

No. In the first half of 2025, 22.6% of ADA website lawsuits targeted sites that already had an overlay installed, and in April 2025 the FTC fined the largest overlay vendor $1 million for claiming its widget made sites compliant. An overlay adds a menu on top of the page; the theme code underneath, the part screen readers and plaintiffs’ scanners read, stays as it was. Fixing that code is what courts look at. See Accessibility Overlays Don't Work.

Only to the color you choose. For each failing pair, SiteRemora suggests the nearest shade of your own color that passes and shows the ratio before and after. You keep it, edit it or pick another, and that color is written into the theme: once in the stylesheet when one class sets both colors, so every use of it changes together, or on the element itself. Contrast fixes always wait for you, with autopilot on as well, and each one reverts in one click.

Every change is stored with its exact before and after, and any fix can be reverted in one click, by anyone on your team, whenever you like. Reverting puts the original code back in the same theme the fix was written to.