How to fix landmark contentinfo is top level on Wix Studio

Steps for Wix Studio

1. In Wix Studio, open your site and navigate to the page layout.
2. Ensure the Footer section is placed in the designated Footer slot of the layout (not embedded inside a Main Content or Section block).
3. If you have custom HTML components or Velo-injected markup with role="contentinfo", open the code editor and verify that markup is rendered as a sibling of <main>, not a descendant.
4. Publish your site, then run axe DevTools on the live URL to confirm the landmark is top-level.

What is landmark contentinfo is top level?

Every webpage typically has a footer that contains things like copyright notices, contact links, and legal disclaimers. In HTML, the `<footer>` tag (or any element with `role="contentinfo"`) is a special navigation landmark that screen readers use to help users jump directly to site-wide footer content. The WCAG rule `landmark-contentinfo-is-top-level` means that this footer landmark must sit at the top level of the page — a direct child of `<body>` — rather than being wrapped inside another landmark element like `<main>`, `<header>`, `<section>`, or `<article>`. When your footer is nested inside another landmark, screen readers get confused about the page's structure and may not correctly announce or navigate to the footer.

Screen reader users — including many people with visual impairments or motor disabilities — rely on landmark regions to skip around a page efficiently, much like sighted users scan headings visually. When your `contentinfo` (footer) landmark is buried inside another landmark, assistive technologies either skip it or mis-announce it, making your site harder or impossible to navigate for these users. This is a WCAG 2.1 failure (Success Criterion 1.3.6 / best practice under 4.1.2), meaning your store may face legal accessibility risk under laws like the ADA (USA), EAA (EU), or AODA (Canada). Fixing it also signals high HTML quality to search engines, which increasingly factor accessibility into crawl quality, and avoids potential legal complaints or demand letters that are increasingly common against ecommerce stores.

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