Popup Check

The problem

You add an email sign-up popup, an age gate or a cookie banner, and it looks fine to you. To a shopper using a screen reader it can be a wall: focus never reaches it, the close button has no name, and Escape does nothing. Popups are among the failures that show up in website accessibility demand letters, and the free checkers mostly test the page as it looks before the popup appears.

What it does

For owners of small online shops who add email sign-up popups, age gates, cookie banners and chat buttons through apps. You open your own store, wait for the popup and click a free bookmark: it checks whether keyboard and screen-reader users can reach, use and close each popup, and a guided test records where focus really goes when you press Tab and Escape yourself. The dated report says what to fix and whose job it is, and when the popup comes from a well-known app it writes the message to send to that app's support. Nothing is installed on your store and nothing is uploaded.

What you get

• See which of your popups a keyboard or screen-reader user cannot close or use
• Get plain instructions, or a note that the popup app itself needs replacing
• Keep a dated record of what you checked and changed
• Get re-checked automatically after you add or change an app

Good to know

It only checks popups that are open when you click the bookmark, and it cannot look inside chat windows drawn in another company's frame.