Satoshi theme: automated accessibility test

On September 29, 2026 the AccessifyAI scanner tested the official demo store of Satoshi 17.0.0 by scandiweb on 4 pages. It found 4 issue types (24 occurrences in total). For 9 of the 12 WCAG 2.2 criteria this index evaluates it found nothing.

Is Satoshi accessible?

An automated test cannot answer that on its own. What this one shows is 4 types of issues on the Satoshi 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: scandiweb
Price: $100 USD
Version tested: 17.0.0, released September 29, 2026
Style: Satoshi
Scan date: September 29, 2026
Demo store: satoshi-demo-4.myshopify.com
Theme Store: Theme Store page
Pages: Home page: tested, 6 findings
Collection page: tested, 5 findings
Product page: tested, 8 findings
Cart page: tested, 5 findings

What the test found

Image without an alt attribute

WCAG 2.2 1.1.1 Non-text content, Level A

2 occurrences, found on: Product 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.transition-image
img.max-h-full

Positive tabindex changes the tab order

WCAG 2.2 2.4.3 Focus order, Level A

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

Why it matters for shoppers: The keyboard focus jumps to these elements first, out of reading order.
Where it usually lives in a Shopify theme: Sliders, pop-ups, newsletter modals and custom widgets.
Direction for a fix: Remove positive tabindex values. Use tabindex="0" where needed and order elements in the markup.
Examples from the demo store: tabindex=1
tabindex=2
tabindex=3

Icon without a text alternative or a decorative mark

WCAG 2.2 1.1.1 Non-text content, Level A

8 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.sr-only
svg.text-4xl

More than one h1 heading on the page

WCAG 2.2 1.3.1 Info and relationships, Level A

2 occurrences, found on: Home page, Product page

Why it matters for shoppers: With two or more first-level headings it is harder to tell which one names the page.
Where it usually lives in a Shopify theme: A logo wrapped in an h1 on every page, or section headings that can be set to h1 in the theme editor.
Direction for a fix: Keep h1 for the main title of the page. Wrap the logo in an h1 only on the home page and let sections start at h2.

Evaluated criteria without findings: 9 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)
2.4.1 Bypass blocks (Level A)
2.4.2 Page titled (Level A)
2.4.4 Link purpose (in context) (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)
4.1.2 Name, role, value (Level A)

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

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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