How to fix empty heading on Wix

Steps for Wix

1. Open the Wix Editor and navigate to the page flagged with the empty heading.
2. Click on the element that appears as an empty or invisible heading (it may look like a blank text box).
3. In the toolbar, check the element type — if it is set to 'Heading 1–6' in the Text Settings panel, either type meaningful text into it or change its role to 'Paragraph' if no heading is needed.
4. To change the HTML role of a text element in Wix: select the element → Settings (gear icon) → Accessibility → set 'Heading level' to 'None' if the text is not a true heading.
5. Alternatively, delete the empty text element entirely if it adds no value.
6. Use Wix's built-in Accessibility Wizard (Dashboard → Settings → Accessibility Wizard) to scan for remaining issues.

What is empty heading?

A heading tag — `<h1>`, `<h2>`, `<h3>`, and so on — is supposed to label a section of a page, like a chapter title in a book. An "empty heading" is one of those tags that exists in your page's code but contains no readable text: it might be completely blank, hold only a spacer character, or contain an icon with no text alternative. Because the tag is there but says nothing, screen readers announce "heading" to a blind or low-vision visitor and then go silent — which is confusing and often disorienting.

Accessibility & legal risk: WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.3.1 (Info and Relationships) and 2.4.6 (Headings and Labels) require headings to be meaningful. Empty headings fail these criteria, exposing your store to accessibility complaints, ADA/AODA/EAA legal action, and — in many jurisdictions — potential litigation. *SEO:* Search engines use heading tags as strong signals for what a page is about. Empty headings dilute the heading hierarchy and give crawlers nothing useful, which can hurt rankings for the sections those headings are meant to introduce. *Conversions:* A broken page structure frustrates assistive-technology users, who represent roughly 15–20 % of the global population, and causes them to abandon your store.

See the complete Empty heading guide for every platform and the full background.