How to add an accessibility statement to a Wix site

By Kayabyte

A visitor with low vision wants to know whether your site works for her, and who to write to if it does not. A short accessibility statement answers both. It is also one of the items in Wix’s own checklist. This guide covers what Wix says, what to put in the statement, a sample you can copy, and where to link it.

What Wix says

Wix’s help page Accessibility: Adding an Accessibility Statement to Your Site gives these steps:

Add a page named “Accessibility Statement”.
Add one text box per section, so each heading and paragraph can get the right tag (H1, H2 or p).
Create a link or button labelled “Accessibility Statement”.
Attach it to the header or footer, so visitors can reach it from any page.

The page also offers a template with headings such as “What web accessibility is”, “Accessibility adjustments on this site” and “Requests, issues, and suggestions”. It does not say which editor the steps are for. The Wizard also lists the statement as a manual task (Using the Accessibility Wizard).

Wix says the page is not legal advice and that in some countries a statement is a legal duty.

What a good statement contains

A commitment. One sentence saying you want the site to work for everyone.
The standard you aim for. Wix suggests naming the WCAG version and level, such as WCAG 2.2 level AA. Say “aim”, not “meet”, unless an expert has tested the site.
What you did. Wix’s list includes setting the site language, checking content order and headings, adding alt text and checking colour contrast.
Known limits. Name anything you know is hard to use, such as third-party booking or payment parts.
Contact. A name or role, an email address and, if you can, a phone number.
A date. When you last reviewed the statement.

A sample you can copy

Replace the square brackets. Remove lines that are not true for your site.

Accessibility statement

Last updated: [date]

[Business name] wants everyone to be able to use [website address]. We are working to improve the site and we aim to follow WCAG 2.2 level AA.

What we have done - Set the language of the site. - Added text descriptions to meaningful images. - Checked headings, so each page has a clear structure. - Used the Wix Accessibility Wizard and acted on what it found. - Added a toolbar that lets visitors change text size, contrast and font. [Remove if you have not.]

Known limits - [Example: Our booking and payment pages are provided by a third party and may be harder to use with a screen reader.] - We have not tested every page with every assistive technology.

Contact If something on this site is hard to use, write to [name or role] at [email address]. We aim to reply within [number] working days.

This is plain text. It makes no claim that the site meets any law or standard.

Where to put it

Put the link in the footer so it shows on every page, as Wix’s steps suggest. Name the link “Accessibility Statement”. Keep the page out of any password-protected area. Review it when you make big changes and update the date.

The EAA and ADA, in plain words

This is general information, not legal advice. Ask a lawyer or an accessibility expert what applies to you.

The European Accessibility Act has applied since 28 June 2025. It covers some online services, such as online shops, sold to consumers in the EU. Micro-enterprises are exempt for services. The standard it points to is EN 301 549, which follows WCAG 2.1 level AA.

In the United States, the Americans with Disabilities Act has been applied by courts to some websites. The rules vary by case and state, and there is no single technical standard in the law itself. Courts and settlements often refer to WCAG.

Wix says it cannot guarantee that a site on its platform meets regional laws (About Web Accessibility). A statement is one part of the work. It does not replace fixing the site.

The generator in the app

Full disclosure: Kayabyte makes Accessibility Widget & Audit, so I describe it in more detail than the other options. Wix’s template is free and works well. Other accessibility apps in the App Market also offer statements.

In our app, the Statement tab asks for your site name, a contact email and which measures apply. It writes a short statement with the date, what was done, the toolbar, known limits and the contact. You copy the text into the page you created in Wix. It makes no compliance claim, and it is on the Free plan. It is available in 8 languages.

The app also has a visitor toolbar (text size, contrast, dyslexia-friendly font, reading mask and guide, stop animations, read aloud, highlight links and headings, and profiles) with no page-view limit on any plan. The audit lists problems on your published pages with where to fix each in Wix. No tool on its own makes a site meet WCAG, so use the statement to describe real work.

Worked example

A small web shop in Germany sells candles. The owner runs the audit and fixes eleven alt texts and two headings. She installs the toolbar and uses the generator. She pastes the text into a new Wix page, adds the line “Checkout is run by a payment provider and has not been tested with all screen readers”, and links the page in the footer. She sets a reminder to review it in six months.

Plans

Free: 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

Does a statement make my site compliant? No. It describes what you have done and where to get help.

Do I need one? In some countries it is a legal duty, Wix says. Check what applies to you.

How often should I update it? When the site changes in a big way, and at least once a year.

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