I scanned 100 German e-commerce sites with a pa11y + axe-core + Puppeteer pipeline across 5 page types, sharing the setup and results

Built a small scripted pipeline to benchmark accessibility on 100 German online shops and the numbers were rougher than I expected, so here is the setup in case it is useful for your own CI. Stack: Puppeteer drives a headless Chromium through up to five routes per shop (home through checkout). Then pa11y 9.1.1 runs HTML_CodeSniffer and axe-core 4.10.2 runs on the same loaded DOM. Results get deduped by selector and rule id so the two engines do not double-count. Shops were picked to match German platform share. Shopify was the biggest block at 40 of 100, with Shopware and WooCommerce next. Output: 29,745 hard errors across the sample, with every one of the 100 shops failing WCAG 2.1 AA and homepages averaging 99.8 errors. The recurring offenders were touch targets under 44px on all 100, low contrast on 67, broken heading order on 61 and unnamed links on 58. Two practical notes for anyone scripting this. Checkout was only reachable on 82 of 100 without an account or a real cart, so deep-page coverage is uneven and you should log it per route instead of pretending you scanned everything. And automated detection is about 57% of real issues, so this is a smoke test, not an audit. submitted by /u/Loewenkompass [link] [留言]