Wix Accessibility Guide: Making Your Wix Site WCAG Compliant

Wix has made significant investments in accessibility over the past few years, including a dedicated Accessibility Wizard and built-in keyboard navigation support. But Wix sites still frequently fail automated WCAG scans — especially older sites or sites built with heavily customized designs.

Here's what you need to know.

Use the Wix Accessibility Wizard

Wix has an Accessibility Wizard that walks you through common issues. Find it in your site dashboard under Settings → Accessibility Wizard. It will:

• Check all your images for alt text
• Validate heading hierarchy
• Enable keyboard navigation
• Add a visual focus indicator
• Generate an accessibility statement

Run this first. It handles a meaningful chunk of the baseline.

What the Wizard Doesn't Catch

Even after running the wizard, you'll still likely fail automated scans on:

1. Color contrast in custom color palettes

Wix lets you pick any color for any element. If you chose light gray text on white for body copy, the wizard will not catch it. Run our color contrast checker on your brand palette.

2. Custom form fields

If you use Wix Forms or Wix Bookings with custom field styling, labels and error messages may not be programmatically associated. Screen readers can fail these forms completely.

3. Third-party app accessibility

The Wix App Market has hundreds of apps. Many render their own HTML that bypasses Wix's accessibility tooling entirely. Popups, chat widgets, review apps, and booking calendars are the worst offenders.

4. Animations and motion

Wix makes it easy to add hover animations, scroll-triggered effects, and auto-playing videos. WCAG 2.3.3 requires the ability to disable non-essential motion for users with vestibular disorders. Respect prefers-reduced-motion in any custom code, and avoid auto-playing video without a pause control.

5. Link styling and focus states

Wix's default themes style links with color only. You need underlines or another visual indicator beyond color (WCAG 1.4.1).

What You Can Change

The biggest limitation of Wix is that you cannot access the underlying HTML. You can:

• Change colors (in the site palette)
• Add alt text to images (in each image's settings)
• Set page titles and meta descriptions
• Enable/disable keyboard navigation globally
• Use the accessibility wizard
• Add an accessibility statement (we have a free generator)

You cannot directly edit HTML or ARIA attributes unless you're using Velo (Wix's developer mode).

The Velo Escape Hatch

If you're comfortable with code, Velo gives you JavaScript access to your Wix site. You can:

• Add ARIA attributes to elements via $w("#element").setAttribute("aria-label", "...")
• Inject custom focus management
• Add skip-to-content links
• Fix third-party app issues with custom wrappers

Velo is the only way to address many of the deeper accessibility issues on Wix, but it requires developer skill.

Audit Your Wix Site

Run a free scan on wcagrepair.com to see where your Wix site stands against WCAG 2.1 AA. Our scanner uses a real Chromium browser (via Playwright) and will crawl up to 10 pages. Even though you can't edit Wix's underlying HTML directly, the scan results tell you:

• Which issues you can fix in the Wix editor (colors, alt text, headings)
• Which issues require the Accessibility Wizard
• Which issues need Velo code to remediate
• Which issues are structural and may require switching platforms

Is Wix Right for Accessibility-Critical Sites?

Wix is fine for most small-business sites. If your accessibility requirements are critical — government contracts, regulated industries, large e-commerce — a platform with full HTML access (WordPress, Next.js, custom) gives you more control.

Summary Checklist

• [ ] Ran the Wix Accessibility Wizard
• [ ] Added alt text to every image
• [ ] Checked color contrast in your site palette
• [ ] Audited installed Wix App Market apps
• [ ] Disabled auto-playing motion or added controls
• [ ] Added accessibility statement page
• [ ] Scanned with wcagrepair.com and remediated critical issues

Wix accessibility is achievable for most use cases — the platform has done the hard work of making the baseline possible. What's left is content and customization.