For Everyone

Accessibility Statement

Backbone Craft Co is a small, Iowa-based candle and home-fragrance business, and we want this site to work for everyone who visits it -- whether you're shopping on a phone, navigating by keyboard, or using a screen reader. We treat accessibility as an ongoing commitment, not a finished checklist. This page reflects the real, most recent results of our automated testing below -- every number comes directly from that scan, generated mechanically with no manual editing or AI-generated claims.

Our Commitment

We test this site against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at the AA level. That means readable color contrast, keyboard-navigable controls, descriptive image text, and clear, structured page layouts. We know we won't always be perfect, but we review every report we receive and keep improving.

What We've Done

  • A "Skip to content" link so keyboard users can bypass repeated navigation.
  • Visible focus outlines on every interactive control, not just the ones browsers style by default.
  • Semantic landmarks and heading structure so screen readers can navigate the page directly.
  • Descriptive alt text on product and content images.
  • A responsive layout that adapts from phone to desktop.
  • Respect for your browser's text size and zoom -- we never disable pinch-to-zoom.

How This Is Tested

Every week, an automated scan runs axe-core against representative page templates on this site, at both desktop and mobile viewport sizes, using a real browser (Playwright). Automated testing catches many, but not all, accessibility issues, so this is paired with periodic manual review.

Current status

Last automated scan: 2026-11-02 (tested against WCAG 2.2 Level AA)

  • 34 page/viewport combinations scanned across 17 distinct page templates
  • 0 critical, 11 serious finding(s)
  • 34 moderate, 0 minor finding(s)

Known accepted exceptions

  • aria-allowed-role on .shopify-dns-link-icon (minor)

    Shopify-platform-injected icon next to the footer's California Consumer Privacy Act link, not theme-owned markup. Confirmed 2026-09-28.

  • "list" rule false positive on shared overflow-list component

    Known axe-core bug (dequelabs/axe-core#5028): the rule checks a shadow tree's literal children, not what's assigned through its <slot>s. The underlying markup is a correctly-flattened accessible list.

  • region on .asw-trigger-title (moderate)

    A real bug (not a tooling false positive) in the third-party "Access Pro" ADA/accessibility-widget app's own trigger button, which renders outside any landmark region on every page. This is app-injected markup, not theme code, so there's nothing to fix here directly -- flagged to the app vendor. Confirmed 2026-09-29.

Currently known open issues

  • serious Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds

    Collection list (mobile) · rule: color-contrast

  • serious Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds

    Product (base/bundle-builder) (mobile) · rule: color-contrast

  • serious Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds

    Home (mobile) · rule: color-contrast

  • serious Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds

    Product (foaming-hand-soaps) (mobile) · rule: color-contrast

  • serious Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds

    Product (all-purpose-cleaners) (mobile) · rule: color-contrast

  • serious Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds

    Product (room-sprays + quick-order-list) (mobile) · rule: color-contrast

  • serious Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds

    Product (gift card / recipient form) (mobile) · rule: color-contrast

  • serious Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds

    Policy (mobile) · rule: color-contrast

  • serious Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds

    Search (mobile) · rule: color-contrast

  • serious Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds

    Blog article (mobile) · rule: color-contrast

  • serious Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds

    Blog listing (mobile) · rule: color-contrast

Need Help or Have Feedback?

Your experience matters to us. If anything on this site is hard to use, or you run into an accessibility barrier anywhere, please contact us and describe the issue and the page it occurred on -- we review every report and will do our best to help or find a workaround together.