Kris examines Shopify to see if there has been any progress in 2023 in terms of helping their customers (website owners) prevent ADA website litigation and thereby increasing access to people with disabilities to those websites. The findings: no accessibility statement is published on the homepage, overlay widgets / plugins are still featured on the app store, access to people with disabilities is not among the social causes listed, there are two guides on accessibility, and an accessibility policy as mandated for AODA compliance. Shopify website owners have been sued ad nauseam over website accessibility for years (most of my client calls are with Shopify customers) and yet the publicly traded company's response has remained weak at best. Here is the link to the Austen Allred Twitter thread on Shopify and ADA compliance after Austen's sister was sued:

https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1486740992636030981 #ShopifyAccessibility #ShopifyADACompliance #Shopify

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