Harbor & Pine Accessibility Report

Recommendations

Prepared by your analyst

Maintenance — handled by your plan

Fix the sale-ribbon contrast on collection cards 3.1:1 against the linen card — a token change brings it to 4.6:1 Scheduled · next maintenance window
Give the variant dropdown an accessible name Screen readers announce it as “combo box” with no label — it picks the finish Scheduled · next maintenance window
Add alt text to 3 journal images Inline workshop photos from the August posts shipped without descriptions Scheduled · next maintenance window

Opportunities — worth pursuing

Publish an accessibility statement page Documents the standard you hold the store to — increasingly expected, and asked about in B2B/trade orders ≈1 h · fits your included hours
Add an alt-text rule to the journal workflow The recurring offender — a required field plus author guidance prevents next month’s findings ≈1 h · fits your included hours
Scripted screen-reader pass of the full checkout VoiceOver + NVDA, cart through confirmation — the buy path deserves more than automated coverage ≈2 h · fits your included hours

Analyst notes

Cross-referenced: axe-core × Lighthouse × manual checks

The biggest fix this period was sitewide: button contrast. The brass call-to-action buttons failed AA with white text (3.25:1) on every template — switched to ink text (8.1:1). That one change moved the average Lighthouse score from 94 to 97.

Both remaining serious issues sit on the buy path. The sale ribbon (collection) and the unlabeled variant dropdown (product) are the two findings between you and a clean scan — both are queued for the next window.

Open issues

Source: axe-core 4.x · weekly scan of all templates, Aug 28

0 critical · 3 serious · 6 moderate. Best-practice advisories (11) tracked separately and don’t count against the score.

Rule	WCAG	Severity	Instances	Where
`color-contrast`	1.4.3 AA	Serious	2	Sale ribbon on collection cards — /shop
`select-name`	4.1.2 A	Serious	1	Finish variant dropdown — /product
`image-alt`	1.1.1 A	Moderate	3	Inline photos — /journal August posts
`link-name`	2.4.4 A	Moderate	2	“Read more” cards — /journal
`heading-order`	1.3.1 A	Moderate	1	H2 → H4 skip — /checkout order summary

Six-month trend

Source: axe-core weekly scans

Open issues across all templates, by week.

Open issues

The mid-July bump is the new journal templates launching — caught in the first weekly scan after release.

Issues by template

Source: axe-core + Lighthouse (PageSpeed Insights API)

Template	Open issues	Lighthouse a11y	Status
/ (home)	0	100	✓ Clean
/shop (collection)	2	96	! Sale ribbon contrast
/product (template)	1	97	! Variant dropdown
/cart	0	100	✓ Clean
/checkout	1	98	! Heading order
/journal (blog)	5	93	! Alt text + link names

Fixed this period

The running fix log — 5 resolved in August

Fix	Severity	Scope	Resolved
Brass buttons: white text → ink text (3.25:1 → 8.1:1)	Serious	All templates	Aug 6
Product gallery: pause control + carousel labels	Serious	/product	Aug 6
Gallery thumbnails: templated alt text from product + finish	Moderate	/product	Aug 13
Cart quantity steppers: visible focus ring	Moderate	/cart	Aug 13
Skip-to-content link added	Moderate	All templates	Aug 20

Manual checks

Rotating spot checks — automated scans catch only part of WCAG

Check	Scope	Date	Result
Keyboard-only purchase	Browse → cart → checkout → confirmation	Aug 12	✓ Pass
VoiceOver walkthrough	Product page + cart	Aug 12	! Variant dropdown unlabeled — logged above
200% zoom layout	All templates	Aug 19	✓ Pass — no loss of content
Reduced-motion preference	Card hover crossfade, carousel	Aug 19	✓ Honored

Automated scanners catch roughly a third of WCAG success criteria — the manual rotation covers what they can’t: keyboard flows, screen-reader sense, zoom, and motion.