Is the Be Yours Shopify theme accessible?
2 different failures in Be Yours's own code (4 occurrences across three pages), checked against WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA.
Rank 21 of 49 in our Shopify theme accessibility ranking. Be Yours is a paid theme.
Every shop that runs Be Yours without changes to its code has the same failures, so the theme is the cheapest place to fix them.
What fails in Be Yours's own code
A link with no name
A screen reader announces "link" and nothing else, or reads out the web address, so a blind shopper cannot tell where it goes. It is usually an icon link or a logo image with an empty description.
Example from the demo store's home page:
<a href="/products/face-cream" class="rich-text__inline-banner-link">What the check found: Link contains no text, no aria-label, and no image with alt text. It appears to be an icon-only link. A screen reader will announce the destination URL instead.
How to fix it: Give the link text a screen reader can read: visible text, a description (alt text) on the image inside it, or an aria-label on the link. For a logo, your shop's name is the right text.
Headings that skip a level
Screen reader users move around a page by its headings. A jump from a level-2 heading to a level-4 one suggests a missing section and makes the page harder to scan.
Example from the demo store's collection page:
<h3 class="card-information__text h3">What the check found: Jumps from <h1> to <h3>, skipping 1 level(s).
How to fix it: Change the heading tags so levels go down one step at a time, and keep the look with CSS. Pick heading levels for the page's structure, not for their size.
Found in the demo's content, which yours replaces
These come from the images and words the theme's developer put in the demo store, not from the theme's code, so they do not count against Be Yours. They are worth knowing because the same mistakes are easy to make when you add your own content.
- Video or slides that play by themselves (home page (1×)). Moving content that starts on its own and cannot be paused distracts people with attention difficulties. Turn autoplay off in the section settings, or make sure a pause control shows.
- Images with no description (home page (1×)). When you add your own images, write a short description for each one in the Shopify admin (open the image, then "Add alt text"). Decorative images can stay empty.
- Links that do not say where they go (home page (2×), collection page (1×)). "Shop now" and "Read more" mean nothing when a screen reader lists the links on a page. In the section settings, write link text that names the destination ("Shop the linen range").
- Tables with no header cells (home page (1×)). Usually a size chart. Mark the first row as headers so a screen reader can say which column each number belongs to.
Checked, not counted
- Text contrast (product page (12×)). Some text measured below the 4.5:1 contrast WCAG asks for. Contrast over photos and gradients needs the actual pixels, which a markup check cannot see, so it is not counted. Check your own colour settings, which replace the demo's.
What this does not tell you
- Automated checks find roughly a third of accessibility barriers. A clean result here still needs a keyboard and screen-reader test of your checkout. A failure here is certain.
- We tested what loads first. Menus, the cart drawer and pop-ups that open on a click were not opened, so the real totals can only be higher.
- Your shop is not the demo. Apps, sections, settings and your own content change the result, in both directions.
- Themes get updated. These results are for the version the demo store ran on 10 October 2026.
Check your own shop
Run the free check on your shop's pages. It needs no account and lists every confirmed failure with its WCAG criterion, including the ones your apps and content add. If you want every occurrence with the exact Shopify code to fix it, that is what the Fix Pack is for: $99, once.
How Be Yours compares
2 other paid themes had no confirmed failure in its own code: Halftone, Prestige.
Next to it in the ranking: Studio (rank 20, 2 failures) · Release (rank 22, 2 failures).
All 49 themes, ranked, with the method and its limits.
How we tested
We opened three pages of the official Be Yours demo store in Chromium and let its scripts run. Anything the browser did not show was removed, so the theme is never marked down for something no visitor meets. Then each page went through the same engine as our free check. The pages tested:
This is the developer's own demo store; no merchant's shop was measured. If you make Be Yours and have fixed something here, write to hello@limen.ae and we will re-test it.