Accessibility widget for Shopify

Shopify themes look polished out of the box, but accessibility depends on the theme you picked and the apps you layered on. Sticky headers, quick-view popups, and cookie banners often trap keyboard users or wash out text contrast.

ClearPath drops into your Shopify theme with a single line in theme.liquid and then runs on every storefront page, from collections to the cart drawer, without an app subscription.

How to add ClearPath to Shopify

  1. In your Shopify admin, go to Online Store, then Themes.
  2. On your live theme click the three-dot menu and choose Edit code.
  3. Under Layout, open theme.liquid and paste the snippet just before the closing body tag.
  4. Click Save, then visit your storefront to confirm the ClearPath button appears.

Where Shopify sites usually fail

  • Many Dawn-based and other Online Store 2.0 themes rely on section and block markup generated by the drag-and-drop editor, and merchants who reorder blocks often end up with heading levels that jump from an h1 straight to an h4, which breaks navigation for screen reader users.
  • Quick-view modals and slide-out cart drawers built with theme JavaScript frequently trap or drop keyboard focus, so a shopper tabbing through product cards can get stuck inside a popup with no visible way back out.
  • Checkout customizations added through checkout.liquid or Shopify Functions on Plus stores can introduce form fields without proper label associations, leaving screen reader users unsure what a required field is asking for at the exact step where they are about to pay.
  • Variant swatches and size selectors added by theme apps often rely on color alone or on small unlabeled buttons, so a customer who cannot distinguish colors or is using a screen reader has no reliable way to tell which option is currently selected.

Why Shopify sites choose ClearPath

  • Placing the snippet in theme.liquid means it loads on every storefront page automatically.
  • No recurring Shopify app fee, it is a single script tag you control.
  • Language switching helps stores that sell across regions serve shoppers in their own language.
  • The auto-generated accessibility statement gives you a page to link in your store footer.

Questions

Where exactly do I paste the ClearPath code in Shopify?

In Online Store, then Themes, then Edit code, open theme.liquid under the Layout folder and paste the snippet right before the closing body tag. That is the one place that loads on all storefront pages.

Will the snippet stay if I switch Shopify themes?

No. Each theme has its own theme.liquid, so when you publish a new theme you need to paste the snippet again into that theme before going live.

Does ClearPath guarantee my Shopify store meets ADA rules?

No. ClearPath gives your visitors 25 adjustment tools, 8 disability profiles, and support for 14 languages, and it generates an accessibility statement from a live scan of your storefront. What it does not do is rewrite the Liquid templates in your theme, fix heading structure in a custom section, or patch broken keyboard focus in a quick-view app you installed. Those live in your theme code and app scripts, and no widget, including ours, can honestly claim to fix that from the outside or promise legal protection on its own.