It’s #AccessibilityTriumphThursday, and today, we’re highlighting an unexpected contender: Wix. A few years ago, Wix was an accessibility dumpster fire. It was a platform notorious for poor accessibility combined with indifferent support for people with disabilities. It was close to getting sued by a law firm known for accepting only cases where it wanted to make examples of organizations deliberately excluding people with disabilities from equal participation.
Fast-forward to today, and Wix has made a remarkable transformation. While they’re not fully there yet, Wix has made significant advancements in their accessibility journey 1) Better templates that are more accessible out of the box. 2) Improved screen reader support for people with vision loss. 3) Accessibility tools and guidance that help users create more inclusive sites. Is Wix perfect? Not yet. But they’ve moved from treating accessibility as an afterthought to a halfway decent platform where users can deploy accessible websites if they make smart content choices.
If Wix can turn things around, I hope other name-brand companies with serious accessibility and disability inclusion problems can do the same. But first, they must decide people with disabilities are worth investing in, like Wix did. Let’s celebrate this triumph while encouraging Wix to continue their improvements. Accessibility is a program, not a project. https://www.wix.com/accessibility/guides #Accessibility #Inclusion #WebDevelopment #Wix #AccessibilityWins #ProgramNotProject #A11y #WCAG www.wix.com