Wix Accessibility Checker

Wix hosts over 250 million websites across 190 countries, making it one of the largest website builders in the world. Its drag-and-drop editor attracts small businesses, freelancers, and non-technical users who may not realize their beautiful site is completely unusable for someone navigating with a keyboard or screen reader.

Wix has invested heavily in accessibility since 2020, adding an Accessibility Wizard and improving default component behavior. But Wix sites are still overwhelmingly non-compliant — most users never run the wizard, and custom layouts built in the editor frequently break tab order and semantic structure. With ADA litigation increasing and the European Accessibility Act in force since June 2025, Wix site owners need to proactively check their compliance.

Wix's closed editor environment creates a unique set of accessibility challenges that differ from open-source platforms:

• Broken tab order from absolute positioning — Wix's drag-and-drop editor places elements using absolute coordinates. The visual order rarely matches the DOM order, so keyboard users tab through elements in a confusing, non-linear sequence.
• Decorative images without proper roles — background images set through the editor often end up as <img> elements without alt="" or role="presentation", creating screen reader clutter.
• Custom buttons that aren't buttons — styled <div> or <a> elements used as buttons lack role="button" and keyboard event handlers, making them inoperable for non-mouse users.
• Lightbox galleries without focus trapping — Wix's built-in gallery component opens lightboxes that don't trap focus, allowing keyboard users to tab behind the overlay into invisible content.
• Missing skip navigation links — most Wix sites lack a "Skip to content" link, forcing keyboard users to tab through the entire header and navigation on every page load.

Wix's closed ecosystem means you can't edit raw HTML directly, but there are effective approaches. Start by running Wix's built-in Accessibility Wizard from Site Settings > Accessibility — it catches some issues and applies automatic fixes within the editor.

For tab order problems, use Wix's "Set Tab Order" feature in the editor: click an element, go to the accessibility panel, and manually set the tab index for each interactive element. This is tedious but necessary. For alt text, click any image in the editor, select "Add alt text," and write descriptive text — or mark purely decorative images as decorative.

For issues that Wix's editor can't resolve (like semantic HTML structure or ARIA attributes), you may need to use Wix Velo (formerly Corvid) to inject custom code. CompliScan's AI reports specifically note which fixes are possible through the editor versus which require Velo scripting, so you know exactly what's achievable without a developer.

Wix sites are subject to the same accessibility laws as any other website. U.S.-based businesses using Wix must comply with ADA Title III, and courts have not accepted "my website builder doesn't support it" as a defense. The website owner — not Wix — bears legal responsibility for compliance.

European Wix users face the European Accessibility Act (EAA), which requires products and services sold online to be accessible. Since Wix is popular with small EU businesses, the EAA's reach is significant. Wix itself has published accessibility conformance reports, but these cover the platform infrastructure, not individual user-created sites.

CompliScan scans your published Wix site the same way a real browser loads it, catching issues in the rendered output regardless of how Wix generates the underlying code. This matters because Wix frequently updates its rendering engine, and a site that passed last month may have new issues today.