Record Accessibility Lawsuits in 2026: What Every Shopify Store Needs to Know (and Do)
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A law firm finds your store. A bot runs an automated scan, flags a handful of WCAG failures, and a demand letter lands in your inbox a week later. No warning, no customer complaint — just a settlement number. That's how most accessibility cases start now, and online stores are the favorite target.
We build accessibility tooling for a living, so we watch these numbers closely. They got worse in 2025, and 2026 is on track to beat them. The good news, and we'll show our work on this: getting to a defensible level of compliance is cheaper and faster than almost any merchant expects.