SevirantaWix accessibility
Make your Wix site truly accessible. EAA & WCAG, without an overlay
Wix is easy to build with, but not accessible by default: the drag-and-drop editor and auto-generated DOM introduce silent barriers. We find them and deliver the fix through Velo or a custom element, no widget that slows your site down.
What Seviranta does for Wix
Where the barriers hide
Themes, extensions and forms introduce silent barriers. We find every one of them.
The fix in the source, not on top of it
Concrete repairs in your Wix setup, not an overlay layer that only hides the errors.
No widget, no slowdown
We crawl externally from EU servers, 0% impact on your load speed and Core Web Vitals.
Ready for the EAA
Tested against WCAG, at the level that regulators test against.
The truth: Wix is not accessible by default
Wix has shipped cleaner default markup in recent years than it used to, but rarely meets WCAG 2.2 AA on its own. Because you can barely reach the generated code and the editor decides the order for you, barriers appear that your visitors, and the European Accessibility Act, won't accept.
What's really at stake
- An inaccessible checkout is a direct EAA violation.
- An accessibility widget doesn't count as a structural fix.
- Regulators test the generated HTML, including your apps.
- 'We use Wix' is not a legal defence: responsibility sits with the live webshop, not the platform.
What waiting can cost you
up to € 1,000,000
EU maximum · Spain/Luxembourg
$ 4,000
US · California (Unruh), per visit
You won't be fined out of the blue, first comes a remediation order with a deadline. But whoever can show a dated record at that moment walks away cheapest.
See what applies to your target market →The hidden risk of third-party Wix extensions
Review widgets, filters, bundlers and search apps inject dynamic HTML into your frontend. In an audit that code counts in full, even though you didn't write it. That's why Seviranta scans the final result the way a regulator sees it: your Wix theme plus all apps and dynamic content.
What commonly goes wrong on Wix
- Repeaters without semantic structureA Wix repeater visually repeats the same block, but often outputs a flat row of divs with no list or region structure. A screen reader then hears separate items without knowing they form one connected list.
- Drag-and-drop yields illogical focus orderBecause you drag elements freely onto the canvas, the reading and focus order follows the spot in the code, not what you see on screen. Keyboard users end up jumping around the page at random.
- Icon buttons without a nameMenu, cart and social icons are often added in Wix as an image or shape with no text. Without an aria-label a screen-reader user hears only 'button' or 'image' and has no idea what the action does.
- Aria only addable through VeloFor many elements the editor offers no field for aria attributes. To add a role or accessible name, you often have to use Velo or a custom embed, something most Wix sites never do.
What a real fix looks like
Take an icon button on your Wix site. Without an accessible name, a screen-reader user only hears 'button'. Through Velo you give the element an aria-label, no rebuild:
// Icoon-knop zonder naam, alleen een afbeelding$w.onReady(() => {
$w('#cartIcon').accessibility.ariaAttributes.label = 'Winkelwagen';
});What you get
Per issue: what, why and how
For every finding you see what's wrong, who it affects, which WCAG rule applies and a concrete, Wix-aware fix, with a code example where possible.
Platform-specific detection
Our engine recognises the issues that arise specifically on Wix, not just the generic WCAG checks.
A record that holds up
A dated overview of your scans and findings that you can show at an audit or inspection.
With a reporting tool you pay the licence and your developers to fix the issues. With Seviranta the fix is included, no double bill.
Protect your conversion and your legal standing
An app that slaps an accessibility icon over your Wix site is a risk to your business. The facts:
Wix accessibility widgets
- Load extra external scripts that hurt your load speed (LCP) and therefore your conversion.
- Mask the issue instead of fixing it, the underlying code stays broken.
- Don't protect you from claims. The FTC fined overlay vendor accessiBe $1 million in 2025 for misleading compliance claims.
The Seviranta approach
- 0% impact on your load speed, we scan externally from our EU servers.
- We fix the real source code of your Wix templates.
- Automatically builds your retainable EAA compliance record.
Questions and answers
- Is a Wix accessibility widget enough for the EAA?
- No. A widget puts a layer over your site, but doesn't repair the underlying code and doesn't count as structural compliance.
- Does my Wix checkout fall under the EAA?
- Yes. The checkout and navigation are explicitly part of the obligation under WCAG 2.1 AA.
- Does Seviranta also scan my Wix apps?
- Yes. We test the final generated HTML, theme plus apps, the way a regulator does.
- Will this slow my Wix site down?
- No. We scan externally from our EU servers; no script goes on your site. 0% impact on your load speed and Core Web Vitals.
We do it ourselves too
Our own site scores 0 issues in the same engine we scan your Wix store with. We promise no 100%, the machine catches the reliably-automatable part, human review fills the rest, but you don't have to take our word for it: see a real example report.
What the EAA asks of your Wix store
Since June 2025 your webshop must meet WCAG 2.1 AA, a Wix store is no exception. The free scan shows in 60 seconds where you stand, with the exact line that fails.
Selling in more than one country?
WCAG is the global standard. Almost every market builds on it:
Fix your Wix store once to WCAG and you cover the technical bar across all those markets. What differs per market is the enforcer and the fines.
See what applies per target market →Manage several Wix sites for clients?
Stop the stores you ship from becoming an EAA liability for your clients. Use Seviranta as your automated quality stamp on every handover and deploy, one scan, and every site is demonstrably in order.
See our partner programme →Scan your Wix store free
Paste your Wix URL into the free scan and see within a minute which lines fail, with the exact spot on your page.