What the Wix Accessibility Wizard checks, and what it misses

By Kayabyte

A small shop owner runs the Wix Accessibility Wizard, fixes every item it lists and sees a clean result. Then a customer using a screen reader writes to say the checkout is hard to use. Both things can be true. The Wizard does a useful job on most pages, but Wix’s own help says plainly that it does not scan some parts of a site. Below is what it checks, what it leaves out, and a short checklist you can run yourself.

What the Accessibility Wizard checks

Wix’s help page Accessibility: About the Accessibility Wizard says the Wizard is based on WCAG 2.2. It scans from inside the editor and shows two lists.

Detected issues are split into site level and page level. According to Accessibility: Using the Accessibility Wizard, the site-level items are:

focus indicators
the “Skip to Main Content” link
the main site language
DOM order (the order a keyboard or screen reader moves through the page)

The page-level items are:

page title
heading structure
image alt text
colour contrast
unsupported elements
media file accessibility

Manual tasks are things the Wizard cannot detect. The same article lists descriptive link and button text, using more than colour to give information, text inside images, controls for animation and audio, content at 200% zoom, an accessibility statement, and a second look at colour contrast.

To run it in the Wix Editor, go to Settings, then Accessibility Wizard, then Scan Site. In Wix Harmony, click the site name at the top left, scroll to Accessibility, click Fix Issues, then Scan Site (Wix Harmony Editor: Using the Accessibility Wizard). The Studio steps in the article are the same as the Editor steps, as far as I could find.

What it does not cover

The “About” page lists areas the Wizard does not support or scan:

the CMS, external and third-party apps, and Velo
password-protected pages
the side cart and checkout pages
Wix Site Search, Gift Cards, Music, Reviews, Referral Program, Loyalty Program, Pricing Plans, Podcast Player, Table Reservations and Restaurant Orders
the Online Programs Thank You page

It also works only in the site’s primary language. It cannot be opened for secondary languages added with Wix Multilingual. The checklist, Wix says, can be used for all languages.

For a shop, the gaps matter most. The side cart and checkout are where people pay.

The Accessibility Monitor

The Accessibility Monitor scans the published site and shows the result in an Accessibility card in your dashboard, under Site & Mobile App, then Website Overview. If it finds issues, Fix Issues opens the Wizard. It only sees what you have published, so publish first. Wix’s page says it detects “potential accessibility issues” and does not list the types, so I cannot say what it covers in more detail.

A checklist you can run

Wix publishes its own accessibility checklist with twelve items, from the site language to an accessibility statement. Here is a shorter version for a site owner.

Run the Wizard and work through Detected issues.
Open the Manual tasks tab and check each item by eye.
Set the page language for every language you offer, not only the first.
Give every meaningful image alt text.
Check that each page has one H1 and that headings follow in order.
Make sure links and buttons say where they go. “Read more” five times in a row does not help a screen reader user.
Check that forms show a field title. Wix warns that old Wix Forms are not accessible (creating an accessible Wix form).
Zoom the browser to 200% and look for text that is cut off.
Tab through the site with a keyboard. Try the menu, the checkout and any popup.
Test the pages the Wizard skips: checkout, side cart, password-protected pages, CMS pages, app pages.
Add an accessibility statement (how to).

A widget is a button on your site that opens a panel of display options for visitors. Text size, contrast, a dyslexia-friendly font, a reading guide and stopping animations are typical. They help people who want to change how a page looks for them.

A widget does not repair the page underneath. A missing alt text, a skipped heading or an unlabelled button is still there for people whose own screen reader reads the page code. In April 2025 the US Federal Trade Commission issued a final order against accessiBe over claims that its tool made sites WCAG compliant. The lesson is to be wary of any tool that promises that.

Where the app fits

Full disclosure: Kayabyte makes Accessibility Widget & Audit, so I describe it in more detail than the other options. Other accessibility apps exist in the Wix App Market.

It does two things.

The toolbar. Visitors can change text size, contrast, font, reading mask and guide, stop animations, have text read aloud and highlight links and headings. Profiles set several tools at once. There is no page-view limit on any plan.
The audit. It reads your published pages and lists language, titles, image alt text, heading order, link and button names, form labels, iframe titles and disabled zoom. Each finding names the page and says where to fix it in Wix. This covers some of what the Wizard leaves out, because it looks at the published page. It does not check colour contrast, keyboard use or anything behind a login, the checkout or the side cart.

No tool on its own makes a site meet WCAG. Use the Wizard, the audit and your own testing together.

Plans

Free: the full toolbar, an audit of 5 pages and the statement generator. Pro is $5.99 per month, or $4.99 per month billed yearly, with a 14-day free trial. It adds an audit of up to 200 pages with history, a custom colour and offsets for the button, and hiding the “by Kayabyte” link. If you open the toolbar from your own #accessibility link (which works on every plan), Pro also lets you hide the floating button. Billed by Wix.

Get Accessibility Widget & Audit on the Wix App Market.

FAQ

Is Wix WCAG compliant? Wix says it cannot guarantee that a site meets your region’s laws, even after using the Wizard, and suggests asking an accessibility expert. See the About Web Accessibility page.

Does the Wizard work on Wix Studio and Harmony? Wix has a Harmony article and the Monitor page lists the Editor, Studio and Harmony. The usage article describes Studio as supported.

Does the audit replace the Wizard? No. Run both. They look at different things.

Wix help checked on 7 November 2026. Wix changes its tools often, so check the pages linked above.