ComplyMetric monitors storefront accessibility wherever your store actually runs: standard Shopify themes, Hydrogen and headless builds, and custom front ends. Continuous WCAG 2.2 scanning catches regressions from deploys and app updates, and monthly remediation-evidence reports keep your compliance documentation current across every surface.
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Headless storefronts change through deployments, not theme publishes, so the watch keys off deploys. Each production deploy triggers a rescan of affected routes, and the diff against the last clean baseline isolates what the release broke. Component-level attribution maps failures back to the repository your developers work in.
Theme stores get the same continuous watch with Shopify-specific attribution: the theme file, section, or app responsible for each issue. Theme updates and app installs trigger targeted rescans, so the blind window after a change is measured in hours rather than a quarter.
Because risk is counted per brand, not per stack. A plaintiff tests whichever surface they find, and a headless rebuild does not retire the accessibility debt of the old theme's content. One watch means one baseline, one evidence log, and one monthly report covering everything a customer can reach.
| Capability | ComplyMetric | Dev testing plugin |
|---|---|---|
| Monitors production continuously | Yes | No |
| Works across Shopify and headless | Yes | No |
| Deploy-triggered rescans | Yes | No |
| Monthly evidence reports | Yes | No |
| Stored compliance history | Yes | No |
| Business-readable reporting | Yes | No |
Only accidentally. A custom front end removes theme constraints but adds the obligation to reimplement focus management, announcements, and semantic structure that mature themes provide. Headless stores often ship with worse accessibility than the theme they replaced. The risk profile changes shape; it does not shrink.
A lightweight check runs after each production deploy and kicks off a targeted scan of changed routes. Failures are diffed against the last clean baseline and reported with the deploy identifier, so the responsible release is unambiguous. Full-site scans continue on a weekly schedule underneath the deploy checks.
Yes. Any publicly reachable storefront can be watched, including Hydrogen, Next.js, Nuxt, and fully custom builds. Client-rendered routes are tested in a real browser context so dynamic states, modals, and interactive components are exercised the way a screen reader or keyboard user experiences them.
Headless stores still hand off to Shopify's hosted checkout, which Shopify maintains to a strong accessibility standard. The watch concentrates on what your team controls: product, cart, and account experiences, plus any checkout extensions in use. That division of responsibility is documented in the monthly report.
Brands running more than one storefront surface: a Shopify theme store plus a headless flagship, regional stores, or a migration in progress where old and new stacks run side by side. E-commerce directors get one answer about brand-level accessibility instead of a different tool per stack.
Every engagement starts with a free accessibility audit across one storefront surface, so coverage is concrete from day one. Ongoing monitoring is quoted per surface after the audit, based on how many surfaces you run and their scan cadence. No long-term contract.