Wix is one of the most popular website builders in the world and it’s home to more than 160 million websites.
Wix is known for the ease it provides when it comes to building a website. This also includes providing as much support and information as possible to its users when it comes to accessibility, and Wix tries to provide templates and plugins that were developed with accessibility in mind.
See the accessiBe installation guide for Wix here
With that being said, there’s only so much that Wix can do to help you make your website accessible. In fact, in their accessibility statement, Wix tells users “the part of your site that neither us nor any plugin/add-on can make accessible is your content.” Seeing as how people use Wix in order to upload and showcase their own content, this is where it gets tricky.
Although Wix provides thorough and detailed guides on how to implement certain accessibility features within your content, it is still up to you to do it. Even Wix’s accessible templates become immediately inaccessible the second that you upload content that doesn’t conform to the WCAG. Because you can’t access the code, you’ll need to permanently adjust your content to accessibility standards for all your users, not just for people with disabilities, which could have an effect on how you present your content.
You’ll need to do your own research when it comes to figuring out which apps work best with the content that you want to add. In the end, the foundations are there, which is important to note, but making your Wix website accessible will take time and effort.
There are a few third-party vendors that will make your Wix website accessible for you. But whether you do it yourself and choose to outsource, manual accessibility remediation is a process that can take months to complete. More importantly, it’s not cheap. For the majority of Wix users who come for the attractive prices, spending thousands of dollars on remediation is not an option.
