WooCommerce Accessibility Is More Than a Product Page Scan
WooCommerce is not a page. It is a sequence of interactive states, and accessibility problems can exist in any of them.
A customer's actual path
- Browse a shop archive
- View a product
- Choose a variation
- Change a quantity
- Add the product to the cart
- Receive an AJAX update
- Open a mini-cart
- Modify the cart
- Enter checkout
- Encounter validation errors
- Log into an account
- Review an order
A static scan of the product page does not test the entire experience. It tests step two.
What we can investigate
Depending on the store, testing and remediation may include:
- Shop and category archives
- Simple products
- Variable products
- Product galleries
- Variation selectors
- Add-to-cart behavior
- Cart notices
- Cart updates
- Checkout fields
- Validation errors
- Focus management
- Accessible status announcements
- Account pages
- Keyboard navigation
- Theme-level WooCommerce templates
- Plugin-generated checkout components
Theme and plugin interaction matters
WooCommerce itself is only one layer. The final experience is shaped by the active theme, WooCommerce template overrides, payment plugins, cart plugins, product add-ons, page builders, checkout customization, and custom JavaScript.
We investigate the rendered experience and work backward toward the actual source of the problem, rather than filing every finding against “WooCommerce” and leaving you to work out who owns it.
A product page scan is not a store audit
Variations, cart updates, checkout validation and account screens are all states a static scan never reaches. We test the states customers use.