Grid theme: automated accessibility test

On September 29, 2026 the AccessifyAI scanner tested the official demo store of Grid 7.2.0 by Pixel Union on 4 pages. It found 10 issue types (78 occurrences in total). For 7 of the 12 WCAG 2.2 criteria this index evaluates it found nothing.

Is Grid accessible?

An automated test cannot answer that on its own. What this one shows is 10 types of issues on the Grid demo store within the 12 criteria this index evaluates, listed below. The content, apps and settings of your store decide much of the result. Of the 55 WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA criteria, the scanner tests 15, this index reports 12, and the other 40 need a person to check them.

This is not a certification and not a legal assessment.

Test details

Developer: Pixel Union
Price: $280 USD
Version tested: 7.2.0, released March 24, 2026
Style: Grid
Scan date: September 29, 2026
Demo store: grid-theme-bright.myshopify.com
Theme Store: Theme Store page
Pages: Home page: tested, 26 findings
Collection page: tested, 16 findings
Product page: tested, 19 findings
Cart page: tested, 17 findings

What the test found

Link without a name

WCAG 2.2 2.4.4 Link purpose (in context), Level A

11 occurrences, found on: Home page, Collection page, Product page, Cart page

Why it matters for shoppers: A screen reader announces “link” and nothing else, so the shopper cannot tell where it leads.
Where it usually lives in a Shopify theme: Icon links in the header (account, cart), social media icons in the footer, image-only links on product cards and collection tiles.
Direction for a fix: Add visually hidden text or an aria-label to icon links, for example “Cart” or “Instagram”. For an image link, give the image an alt text.
Examples from the demo store: a.logo-link
a
a.pxs-image-with-text-link

Image without an alt attribute

WCAG 2.2 1.1.1 Non-text content, Level A

4 occurrences, found on: Home page, Collection page, Product page, Cart page

Why it matters for shoppers: A screen reader skips the image or reads out its file name, so a blind shopper does not learn what the product photo shows.
Where it usually lives in a Shopify theme: Product card and product media snippets, image banners, slideshow and image-with-text sections, and sometimes the logo in the header.
Direction for a fix: Output the alt text stored with the image, fall back to the product or section title, and give purely decorative images an empty alt="".
Examples from the demo store: img

Form field without a label

WCAG 2.2 1.3.1 Info and relationships, Level A

4 occurrences, found on: Home page, Collection page, Product page, Cart page

Why it matters for shoppers: Without a label a screen reader only says “edit text”, so the shopper cannot tell whether the field is for an e-mail address, a quantity or a discount code.
Where it usually lives in a Shopify theme: Newsletter sign-up in the footer, the search field in the header, quantity fields in the cart, price range filters on collections.
Direction for a fix: Connect every field to a label element with for and id (it may be visually hidden) or give it an aria-label. A placeholder is not a label.
Examples from the demo store: input.mailing-list-email (type="email")

Button without a name

WCAG 2.2 4.1.2 Name, role, value, Level A

4 occurrences, found on: Home page, Collection page, Product page, Cart page

Why it matters for shoppers: The shopper hears “button” with no hint whether it closes a drawer, adds to cart or opens the menu.
Where it usually lives in a Shopify theme: Icon-only buttons: drawer close, slider arrows, quantity plus and minus, menu and search toggles.
Direction for a fix: Put an aria-label or visually hidden text on the button and hide the icon inside it with aria-hidden="true".
Examples from the demo store: button.quickshop-close

The same id is used more than once

WCAG 2.2 4.1.2 Name, role, value, Level A

28 occurrences, found on: Home page, Collection page, Product page, Cart page

Why it matters for shoppers: Labels, error messages and aria references can point at the wrong element, so a field or control may lose its name.
Where it usually lives in a Shopify theme: Sections rendered twice on one page, such as desktop and mobile headers, cart drawer and cart page, or country and language selectors in both header and footer.
Direction for a fix: Make generated ids unique, for example by adding the section id to them.
Examples from the demo store: "mobile-mega-navigation-face", 2×
"mobile-mega-navigation-body", 2×
"mobile-mega-navigation-concern", 2×

No main landmark

WCAG 2.2 1.3.1 Info and relationships, Level A

4 occurrences, found on: Home page, Collection page, Product page, Cart page

Why it matters for shoppers: Screen reader users jump to the main landmark to skip the header on every page.
Where it usually lives in a Shopify theme: The layout file (layout/theme.liquid), around the page content.
Direction for a fix: Wrap the page content in a main element with an id, for example id="MainContent".

No skip link

WCAG 2.2 2.4.1 Bypass blocks, Level A

4 occurrences, found on: Home page, Collection page, Product page, Cart page

Why it matters for shoppers: A keyboard user has to tab through the whole header and menu on every page before reaching the content.
Where it usually lives in a Shopify theme: Right after the opening body tag in layout/theme.liquid.
Direction for a fix: Make “Skip to content” the first focusable link, pointing at the main element, and show it when it receives focus.

Heading levels skip a step

WCAG 2.2 1.3.1 Info and relationships, Level A

3 occurrences, found on: Home page, Product page, Cart page

Why it matters for shoppers: People who move through a page by headings expect the levels to nest. A jump from h2 to h4 suggests a missing part.
Where it usually lives in a Shopify theme: Section headings, product card titles and footer column headings, where the level is chosen for its font size.
Direction for a fix: Choose heading levels from the structure of the page and set the size with a class.
Examples from the demo store: h1 → h4
h1 → h3

Empty heading

WCAG 2.2 1.3.1 Info and relationships, Level A

2 occurrences, found on: Home page, Product page

Why it matters for shoppers: A screen reader announces a heading with nothing in it.
Where it usually lives in a Shopify theme: Heading blocks left blank in the theme editor, or heading tags that wrap only an icon.
Direction for a fix: Do not output the heading tag when its setting is empty.
Examples from the demo store: h4

Icon without a text alternative or a decorative mark

WCAG 2.2 1.1.1 Non-text content, Level A

14 occurrences, found on: Home page, Collection page, Product page, Cart page

Why it matters for shoppers: If the icon carries meaning, such as a payment method or “free shipping”, a screen reader user misses it. If it is decoration, it should be hidden from screen readers.
Where it usually lives in a Shopify theme: Icon snippets, payment icons in the footer, trust and feature icons.
Direction for a fix: Hide decorative icons with aria-hidden="true". Give meaningful icons role="img" and an aria-label or a title element.
What the test can see: The test cannot tell a decorative icon from a meaningful one, so each of these needs a quick look.
Examples from the demo store: svg

Evaluated criteria without findings: 7 of 12

Without findings means the automated test found nothing for the criterion on these pages. Several of these criteria can only be tested in part by a machine.

1.4.2 Audio control (Level A)
1.4.4 Resize text (Level AA)
2.4.2 Page titled (Level A)
2.4.3 Focus order (Level A)
3.1.1 Language of page (Level A)
3.2.1 On focus (Level A)
3.3.8 Accessible authentication (minimum) (Level AA)

Not evaluated in this index

1.4.3 Contrast (minimum) (Level AA): needs the rendered page with its stylesheets
2.4.11 Focus not obscured (minimum) (Level AA): needs the rendered page with its stylesheets
2.5.8 Target size (minimum) (Level AA): needs the rendered page with its stylesheets

Also noted, Level AAA

Level AAA goes beyond what EN 301 549, the standard behind the EAA and the BFSG, asks for. These points are listed for completeness and are not counted above.

Link opens a new tab without saying so (3.2.5 Change on request): 26
Link text such as “Read more” on its own (2.4.9 Link purpose (link only)): 3

What this result does not tell you

The scanner checks 15 of the 55 WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA success criteria, some of them only in part, and this index reports 12 of them. Keyboard use, focus visibility, captions, error messages and most of what makes a checkout usable need a person to check.
Contrast (minimum), focus not obscured and target size are not evaluated here: they need the rendered page with its stylesheets, and this test does not load stylesheets. Their findings are left out of every count on this page.
It tests the demo store as it was on the scan date: demo content, settings and apps included. A store built on the same theme can have more or fewer findings.
The scanner reads the HTML the server sends, without running scripts or loading external stylesheets. Content that scripts add after the page loads is not part of this test.
It is not a certification and not a legal assessment of the theme or of any store that uses it.

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Data licence: CC BY 4.0. Attribution: AccessifyAI Shopify theme accessibility index, accessifyai.de

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