How to fix empty heading on Wix

Steps for Wix

1. Open the Wix Editor for the page with the issue.
2. Click directly on the heading element on the canvas that appears empty. If it is invisible, try clicking in the area where a heading might be hiding (they can be white text on white background).
3. If the heading element exists but has no text, either type meaningful content into it or select it and press Delete to remove it.
4. In Wix Editor X / Wix Studio, use the Layers panel (left sidebar) to expose all elements including hidden or zero-opacity headings. Select each, check its text content, and fix or remove.
5. For Wix blog or store pages generated from data, ensure your dynamic data source for heading fields is never empty; add a fallback value in your Wix Content Manager dataset.
6. Preview and use the WAVE browser extension on the published URL to verify.

<h2>Featured Collections</h2>

<!-- If text must be visually hidden but available to screen readers: -->
<h2>
  <span class="sr-only">Featured Collections</span>
  <!-- icon or decorative image here -->
</h2>

<!-- CSS for the sr-only class -->
<style>
.sr-only {
  position: absolute;
  width: 1px;
  height: 1px;
  padding: 0;
  margin: -1px;
  overflow: hidden;
  clip: rect(0, 0, 0, 0);
  white-space: nowrap;
  border: 0;
}
</style>

What is empty heading?

A heading tag (like `<h1>`, `<h2>`, `<h3>`, etc.) exists in your page's code but contains no readable text inside it. This can happen when a developer uses a heading tag purely for visual spacing, when a theme or page-builder leaves a placeholder heading behind, or when an icon or decorative image is placed inside a heading without any accompanying text. Screen readers announce headings to blind and low-vision shoppers as navigation landmarks — when a heading is empty, the screen reader either announces nothing or says something confusing like "heading, level 2" with no label, which breaks the shopper's ability to understand or navigate your page.

Empty headings directly violate WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.3.1 (Info and Relationships) and 2.4.6 (Headings and Labels), which are legal compliance benchmarks in many countries under laws such as the ADA (US), AODA (Canada), and EAA (EU). Beyond legal risk, screen-reader users rely on headings to jump quickly between sections — an empty heading wastes a navigation stop and destroys the logical outline of your page. Google also uses heading structure to understand page content hierarchy; empty or meaningless headings weaken your on-page SEO signals and can suppress keyword relevance. Finally, conversion suffers: assistive-technology users who encounter broken navigation are more likely to abandon your store.

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