Is the Ritual Shopify theme accessible?
2 different failures in Ritual's own code, including on the product page (4 occurrences across three pages), checked against WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA.
Rank 23 of 49 in our Shopify theme accessibility ranking. Ritual is a free theme.
On the product page: a link with no name. That is the page where a shopper chooses a size and adds to cart.
Every shop that runs Ritual without changes to its code has the same failures, so the theme is the cheapest place to fix them.
What fails in Ritual'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. This one is on the product page, where people decide to buy.
Example from the demo store's product page:
<a href="/" class="size-style spacing-style header-logo" …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 product page:
<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.
Checked, not counted
- Duplicate ids (collection page (24×)). Two elements share an id. WCAG 2.2 removed this criterion, and it only harms when a label or an ARIA reference points at the duplicated id, so it is not counted. Most come from hidden copies of menus and drawers.
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 Ritual compares
4 other free themes had no confirmed failure in its own code: Craft, Crave, Ride, Taste.
Next to it in the ranking: Release (rank 22, 2 failures) · Sky (rank 24, 2 failures).
All 49 themes, ranked, with the method and its limits.
How we tested
We opened three pages of the official Ritual 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 Ritual and have fixed something here, write to hello@limen.ae and we will re-test it.