About Paperfort
Automated accessibility documentation for Shopify merchants
Paperfort produces Shopify accessibility documentation. When a merchant runs Paperfort, we scan the public pages of the storefront and turn the results into three artifacts: a timestamped WCAG 2.2 AA audit report, a hosted /accessibility statement page on the merchant’s own domain, and a VPAT 2.5Rev (ITI format) conformance report. We document the storefront. We do not modify it.
Automated only, by design
Paperfort’s scan is fully automated. It runs axe-core, the open-source accessibility testing engine, against the rendered HTML, CSS, and JavaScript output of each page, checking against WCAG 2.2 Level AA success criteria. There is no overlay, no widget, no toolbar, and no JavaScript injected into the storefront. The same scan runs the same way every time, so the report is repeatable and timestamped.
Being automated is also a limit, and we say so plainly. Automated scans catch only a portion of WCAG issues; manual review and assistive-technology testing are still required for a complete picture. Paperfort documents what the scan finds, flags where a qualified professional should review further, and never claims to certify full conformance. For exactly how the scan works and what it covers, see the methodology page.
Who is accountable for the content
The Paperfort team writes, maintains, and stands behind the documentation this service produces and the explanations published on this site. We are an independent software company operating from the United States. We are not certified accessibility professionals, and we make no CPACC, IAAP, or expert-review claim. What we provide is an automated scan and the documents generated from it, written honestly about what they do and do not cover.
What Paperfort is not
- Not an accessibility overlay, widget, toolbar, or “one-click compliance” tool.
- Not a law firm, and not a source of legal advice. Nothing on this site or in our documents is legal advice.
- Not a human-expert manual-remediation service. Paperfort is automated documentation; it does not perform manual expert remediation.
- Not a guarantee. Paperfort does not guarantee lawsuit prevention, automatic ADA compliance, or immunity from litigation or regulatory action.
Why we built it
Most web-accessibility lawsuits target ecommerce, and a large share of those target Shopify stores. Many of the tools sold to address this are overlays. In January 2025 the U.S. FTC announced an action against overlay vendor accessiBe over deceptive “ADA compliant” marketing claims (File No. 222-3156). Paperfort takes the opposite approach: it installs nothing and produces honest documentation a merchant can keep on file and hand to their own attorney. You can read the sourced litigation context on our 2025 ADA litigation data page.
Contact
Email support@paperfort.app with product questions, sales@paperfort.app for agency inquiries, or privacy@paperfort.app for data requests.