How long does it take to make a Shopify store ADA compliant?

For a typical Shopify store, about 30 days of part-time development work. The audit itself takes days, the fix sprint takes two to four weeks depending on issue count and developer availability, and verification adds a few days. A full rebuild is almost never needed. After the initial sprint, continuous monitoring keeps the store conformant as themes and apps change.

What the first week looks like

A proper audit scans every template against WCAG 2.2 AA and maps each failure to its theme file, section, or app. The output is a severity-ranked fix list, not a vague score. Most Shopify stores land between dozens and a few hundred issues, and the bulk cluster in a handful of repeated component patterns, which is why the fix count sounds scarier than the work is.

Why fixes are faster than expected

Shopify issues repeat through shared components. One fix to a variant picker template can clear the same failure across every product page. A developer working from a component-level list typically closes issues in batches, and each fix is verified by rescan so the record shows the repair, not just the attempt.

What happens after day 30

Compliance is not a finish line. Theme updates, app installs, and content edits reintroduce failures, and plaintiff scanners check stores repeatedly, not once. Monitoring catches regressions the day they ship and keeps the dated evidence trail growing, which is the part that matters if a demand letter ever arrives.