Does the Wix Accessibility Wizard make my site compliant?

No. The wizard is a useful checklist that catches missing alt text, heading structure, and some contrast problems on the pages it inspects. It does not evaluate the criteria that need judgment, and Wix does not claim it produces conformance.

Do drag-and-drop layouts cause accessibility problems on Wix?

They can. Absolute positioning lets visual order and DOM order drift apart, so a screen reader or keyboard user can meet the content in an order that makes no sense. This is the failure most specific to drag-and-drop builders.

Which Wix pages should be checked first?

The pages that carry the transaction or the contact: home, the main service or product page, any booking or store flow, and the contact page.

Guide

Wix accessibility check: what to test on a Wix site

Wix has done more than most builders to make accessible sites possible: keyboard-navigable templates, an Accessibility Wizard, and an ARIA-aware editor. What none of that decides is whether your site, as you built it, works. The gap between "the platform supports accessibility" and "this site is accessible" is where every claim lives.

What the Accessibility Wizard covers, and what it leaves

The wizard walks your pages and flags a real, useful subset: images without alt text, heading levels that skip or repeat, insufficient contrast in the theme, and missing page titles or language settings. Treat it as the machine layer, because that is what it is. It does not judge whether your alt text describes the image usefully, whether focus moves in a sensible order through a custom layout, whether an animation can be stopped, or whether a booking flow can be completed without a mouse. Those need judgment, and they are roughly two thirds of WCAG.

Where Wix sites tend to break

Drag-and-drop order. The editor lets you place elements anywhere, and the reading order that assistive technology follows is not always the order you see. This is the failure most specific to builders of this kind, and it is invisible until someone tabs through the page.
Strips and overlays whose text sits on photographs, where contrast passes in one photo and fails in the next.
Third-party apps from the App Market: chat widgets, popups, booking add-ons, each shipping its own markup into your page.
Wix Stores and Bookings flows, which are the pages that matter most and the ones people test last.
Text baked into images for design reasons, invisible to both screen readers and search engines.

How to check it

Run the wizard, fix what it lists. It is free and it clears the easy layer.
Tab through your most important page without a mouse, and watch where focus goes. If the order surprises you, it will fail a real user.
Check a page independently: the free one-page check runs the same deterministic engine our audits use and reports the WCAG 2.1 A and AA rules a machine can decide.
Cover the site: the automated audit ($149, 24 hours) tests every page with evidence and fix instructions, and the signed audit ($490, 48-72 hours) adds the certified specialist's name when someone else has to trust the result.

Already received a demand letter about your site? Different situation: the 72-hour guide comes first, and the signed audit is the version your attorney needs.

Common questions

Does an accessibility app from the App Market fix this?

Overlay-style apps repaint the surface and leave the underlying page as it was, and sites running overlays keep getting sued. Fixes belong in the page, in the editor.

Wix says its templates are accessible. Is that enough?

A template is a starting point that your content, colors, apps, and layout changes all modify. Check the site as published, not the template as shipped. The same reasoning applies to WordPress themes and Shopify themes.

We sell into the EU from a Wix site. Does that change anything?

The technical target is the same WCAG 2.1 AA, but the legal frame differs: see the European Accessibility Act guide.

Check a page now with the free instant check, or get the whole site in the automated audit ($149, 24 hours).