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Make banners accessible

Learn how to make banners accessible with a safe Juniper & Trail example, shopper impact, options, and recovery checks. Use readable contrast, semantic links and buttons, meaningful labels, and restrained motion. Essential offer terms must remain available without waiting for rotation or reading moving content.

Before you begin

Enable the Badgy theme app embed
Write concise campaign copy and a valid destination
Plan mobile and desktop evidence

Keep the campaign in Draft while you verify the configuration. Use a private storefront window where the guide changes shopper-facing behavior.

Step-by-step setup

Make banners accessible shown in the Badgy admin, with numbered callouts for the controls and verification points described below. — Annotated Juniper & Trail example

Switch between banner design and storefront placement controls.
Set the background style, color, opacity, and optional image.
Enter and format banner content, text color, and responsive size.
Inspect the live banner preview at desktop or mobile width.
Save the banner after its preview and placement are verified.

Check text/background and button contrast in every background state.
Use meaningful link/button labels and visible keyboard focus.
Give rotating messages enough reading time and enable pause where useful.
Keep essential terms stationary; conveyor motion must not be the only copy source.
Test keyboard, reduced motion, zoom, screen reader order, and mobile reflow.

Use readable contrast, semantic links and buttons, meaningful labels, and restrained motion. Essential offer terms must remain available without waiting for rotation or reading moving content.

Juniper & Trail example

Juniper & Trail uses make banners accessible for its Weekend Trail Kit offer. Copy is tested at desktop and mobile widths on an included home page and a direct product page. The documentation fixture uses realistic products, inventory states, variants, collections, and protected exclusions so the preview exercises the same decisions as a merchant catalog.

What shoppers will see

Single Trail Days announcement with Shop trail layers action in the Juniper & Trail storefront, marked with one focused verification callout. — Annotated Juniper & Trail example

Confirm the campaign announcement and Shop call to action at the top of the store.
Check the badge and adjusted pricing on an eligible product card.
Compare another product card to verify consistent campaign treatment.

High-contrast announcement with a labeled close control in the Juniper & Trail storefront, marked with one focused verification callout. — Annotated Juniper & Trail example

Confirm the campaign announcement and Shop call to action fit the mobile header.
Check that the badge remains readable on the mobile product card.
Scroll through additional products to verify the collection layout stays usable.

The banner renders only on eligible pages while its campaign and visibility rules allow it; the mobile layout may stack content that is inline on desktop. Check the relevant result from product through cart where applicable. For shopper-facing work, compare desktop and mobile and verify both an eligible and an ineligible item.

Common mistakes and troubleshooting

Acting on the wrong shop. Confirm the Shopify store and campaign before following Make banners accessible.
Trusting a stale preview. Refresh after catalog, schedule, discount, theme, locale, or market changes.
Repeating a background command. Read status and History first; retry only when Badgy presents a recoverable failure.
Checking only one viewport. Verify desktop and mobile in a private storefront window.

If the status reports revoked authorization, reconnect Shopify before retrying. If the result still differs from the preview, preserve the campaign ID and approximate time, then open support from this identified shop. Never send customer data, access tokens, or full catalog exports in feedback.

Options reference

| Option | Use it when | Consequence | | --- | --- | --- | | No/low motion | Essential content or motion sensitivity | Most robust | | Pause | Autoplay content | Offers user control | | Visible focus | Interactive banner | Keyboard requirement | | Static duplicate | Essential conveyor/rotating terms | Content remains available |

Badgy behavior in this guide is reviewed against the repository's shipped UI, service rules, and feature design documents. Shopify-owned theme, Markets, Flow, billing, and discount behavior can also depend on the store's Shopify configuration; consult the Shopify Help Center for that platform configuration.