Accessibility Spark ADA & WCAG

Shipping into the EU meant the june deadline was hanging over us all year, that stress is gone. Being able to move the icon and shrink it mattered more than I expected on our mobile theme. Two things for Spark, a preview mode before changes go live, and remember what a visitor picked last time.

Theme changes go out most weeks here and Spark flags whatever broke by the next morning. Reports come as a PDF, I can forward it to our Agency without editing anything first.

A regular customer of ours uses a screen reader and told me she got through checkout on her own for the first time since we opened. Spark earns its keep on that alone.

My daughter in law handles most of our web things but she has a baby now so it fell to me. What helped was the statement page, a customer asked what we were doing about access and I just sent her the link. Spark also explained the rules without twenty pages of legal talk. Shorter emails would suit me.

Never write these. We have maybe 800 product photos going back to 2019 and none of them had descriptions, this app did them all while i was asleep. The statement page it wrote is fine too

Ok so background, we got a letter from a law firm in march and I panicked. Doorwedge had the certificate ready in about a week which calmed everyone down. The daily scan caught our new landing page the morning after it went live, I was impressed by that. Image descriptions read better than the ones I was writing. Two requests, let me hand edit a description when the AI gets a product wrong, and please add more languages.

Tabbed through the whole site myself before and after. Focus order actually makes sense now, our mega menu was a trap before. Page speed didnt move which was my main worry. The monthly writeup from Spark is short enough that i read it. Id like a way to skip our wholesale pages from the scan.

So far its been a solid addition. Knowing something checks the site each day means one less thing on my mind, and being able to fine tune the colors so they stay readable was a nice touch. Two things for the team, throw in a few ready made theme presets, and a walkthrough for first timers would help.

We needed documentation for an accessibility audit and this handed us a proper compliance statement without any fuss. The option to adjust orientation and text sizing has helped a chunk of our older shoppers navigate.

Running a small shop means i wear every hat so anything that takes work off my plate is a win. The tabbing and keyboard stuff got sorted without me touching code which was a relif. I also get a rundown each month telling me where I stand and it flags issues before they become a problem. Being able to teak the fonts and spacing helped older customers too. Wish the dashboard felt better on my phone.