How to fix avoid inline spacing on Wix

Steps for Wix

1. Open the Wix Editor and click the text or element that has the inline spacing.
2. In the text toolbar, check for any custom Line Spacing, Letter Spacing, or Paragraph Spacing values set in the Text Settings panel (the 'A' icon) — clear or reset them to default.
3. For elements built with Wix Studio or custom code blocks (Velo), open the page code panel and locate any `style` object assignments on DOM elements that set `lineHeight`, `letterSpacing`, or `wordSpacing`; refactor these to CSS classes applied via `$w('#element').addClass('my-class')` and define the class in a site-level CSS file.
4. In Wix Studio, use the Design panel's Typography section to set spacing through design tokens rather than inline overrides.
5. Publish the site and re-test with the axe browser extension.

<!-- BEFORE: inline spacing blocks user overrides -->
<p style="line-height: 1.4; letter-spacing: 0.05em;">Product description text</p>

<!-- AFTER: spacing lives in the stylesheet, users can override it -->
<p class="product-description">Product description text</p>

/* In your stylesheet */
.product-description {
  line-height: 1.4;
  letter-spacing: 0.05em;
}

What is avoid inline spacing?

Inline spacing refers to CSS properties like `line-height`, `letter-spacing`, `word-spacing`, and `margin-top`/`padding-top` (used to control text block spacing) that are written directly inside an HTML element's `style="…"` attribute rather than in a separate stylesheet. When these values are hard-coded inline, a user's browser or assistive-technology stylesheet cannot override them — even when that user has set their own spacing preferences to make text readable. WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.4.12 ("Text Spacing") requires that users can adjust those four specific spacing properties without losing content or functionality.

Roughly 1 in 5 people have a disability that affects how they read text, and many of them rely on custom browser stylesheets or accessibility extensions that increase letter spacing, line height, or word spacing to make text legible. When your store hard-codes those values inline, their overrides are silently blocked, making your content unreadable for those shoppers — driving them directly to a competitor. Beyond lost sales, WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance (which includes SC 1.4.12) is the baseline required by accessibility laws in the EU (EAA), UK (PSBAR), Canada (AODA), and increasingly enforced in the US under the ADA. Non-compliance exposes your business to legal complaints, demand letters, and lawsuits.

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