Test your website’s accessibility.
Nine WCAG checks on the page you choose, in under a minute.
It tests one page at a time: the home page, a product, the cart.
what to fix first
the nine checks
what this check cannot see
This test does not replace a full WCAG audit and does not tell you whether the site complies with the law. It checks one page’s HTML against nine criteria that can be measured without people; the rest needs manual testing.
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what we check
Nine checks, each with its WCAG criterion.
We read the HTML the server sends, as a screen reader would get it before any script runs, and count the elements that fail. Every failure comes with examples from your page.
- Page language<html lang> says which language the page is in, so screen readers pronounce it right.WCAG 3.1.1 (A)
- Page titleA <title> with text that names the page.WCAG 2.4.2 (A)
- Alternative textEvery image has alt; decorative ones, an empty alt.WCAG 1.1.1 (A)
- Labelled fieldsSearch, newsletter, quantity: every field says what it asks for. A placeholder does not count.WCAG 1.3.1, 3.3.2, 4.1.2 (A)
- Named linksCart, account and social icons have a name written in the code.WCAG 2.4.4, 4.1.2 (A)
- Named buttonsMenu, close, carousel arrows: the button says what it does.WCAG 4.1.2 (A)
- Titled iframesEmbedded videos, maps and widgets say what they are.WCAG 4.1.2 (A)
- Heading structureOne H1, no skipped levels, no empty headings.WCAG 1.3.1 (A), 2.4.6 (AA)
- Zoom allowedThe meta viewport does not stop people pinching to zoom.WCAG 1.4.4 (AA)
the law
What the European Accessibility Act asks of an online store.
Read in the official texts on 16 October 2026. Each line carries its article.
- The law
- The European Accessibility Act is Directive (EU) 2019/882. Member States apply it from 28 June 2025.Directive, art. 31(2)
- Online stores
- E-commerce services are covered: services provided at a distance, through websites and mobile apps, at the individual request of a consumer, with a view to concluding a consumer contract.Directive, art. 2(2) and art. 3(30)
- Who is exempt
- Microenterprises providing services: fewer than 10 people and an annual turnover or balance sheet total of up to 2 million euros.Directive, art. 3(23) and art. 4(5)
- What it asks of a site
- Websites and apps that are perceivable, operable, understandable and robust. For stores: information about the accessibility of the products sold, when the responsible operator provides it, and accessible identification, security and payment.Directive, Annex I, section III(c) and section IV(g)
- In Portugal
- Transposed by Decreto-Lei n.º 82/2022, effective from 28 June 2025. ANACOM supervises e-commerce services, and fines for providing a non-compliant service start at 24,000 euros for a company (legal person) and 2,000 euros for a sole trader.DL 82/2022, art. 39, art. 28(1)(a), art. 29
questions
What companies ask.
Does my online store have to be accessible?
If you sell to consumers in the EU and are not a microenterprise, yes, since 28 June 2025. Directive (EU) 2019/882 covers e-commerce services and asks for websites that are perceivable, operable, understandable and robust, with accessible identification and payment.
Which technical standard should I follow?
Products and services that follow harmonised standards published in the Official Journal of the EU are presumed to comply. In practice, a full audit uses WCAG at level AA, which the European standard EN 301 549 incorporates.
Is this test enough to say my site complies?
No. It checks nine criteria that can be measured in one page’s HTML without people. A full WCAG audit also tests contrast, keyboard-only navigation, screen readers and the checkout all the way to payment, page by page.
Why does the test not measure contrast?
Because from HTML alone the result would not be reliable. Contrast depends on all the CSS, background images and element states, and can only be measured properly with the page rendered in a browser. We would rather give no number than a wrong one.
We ran this test on the home page of 373 Portuguese online stores on 19 October 2026: only 21 passed all nine checks, and 269 had links without a name. Read the study, with the method and the data.
Want the full audit, page by page, and the fixes done? We build sites and stores with accessibility from the first sketch.
- Sources, checked on 16 October 2026: Directive (EU) 2019/882, EUR-Lex; Decreto-Lei n.º 82/2022, Diário da República; W3C, EU accessibility policies (EN 301 549 and WCAG 2.1 AA).
- This page explains the law for orientation. It is not legal advice.