We are pleased to announce SureCart 2.10, which brings extensive accessibility improvements to all SureCart stores.

During this rapid release cycle turning SureCart into a full-fledged ecommerce platform, we made the misjudgment to address accessibility in these new capabilities after we finished releasing the features.

This past August, we realized that, if we had to do it over again we would do it differently and sought out a professional accessibility audit of SureCart.

Our team then worked diligently through all the recommendations.

This update brings extensive accessibility enhancements and the team really paid attention to all the tiny details.

For example, the coupon field, tabbing into it, entering a coupon code, and being able to clear the coupon before proceeding.

Another example, the voice-over for the product list when a user adds a product filter, it will announce how many results for users of screen readers, indicating to the user that the results are present on the page.

Also, when the slide out cart appears, it will be announced for the voice-over for users of screen readers, and the user can tab to the close icon or can hit the escape key.

These are just examples of the level of detail the team has gone to in order to make SureCart fully navigable via a keyboard and screen readers.

Now that this release is out, we will seek out another professional unbiased 3rd party audit and a VPAT that will be published on our website.

We are committed to making SureCart the most accessible ecommerce platform out of the box and will ensure all new developments go through a detailed accessibility audit before being released.

Improvement:

• Improvement: Keyboard and screen reader accessibility of customer-facing UI.
• Improvement: Make Stripe Payment Element the new default for the Stripe processor.
• Improvement: Show a notice if Gutenberg plugin is active as this plugin is experimental.

Fix:

• Fix: Ensure SureCart column block does not get top margin in editor.
• Fix: Dark theme not applying to shipping choices on checkout page.
• Fix: Apostrophe being displayed as HTML entity instead of plain text on State/Province selector.
• Fix: Setting a password did not consider a “-” as a special character.