How to fix landmark no duplicate banner on Wix

Steps for Wix

1. In the Wix Editor, the site header is the strip at the very top that appears on every page (labeled 'Header' in the layers panel).
2. Open the Editor → click on any element in the header area → check the Layers panel to confirm only one strip is set as the page Header.
3. If you have added a second sticky strip or an announcement bar and set its ARIA role to 'banner', select that strip → go to its Settings/Accessibility panel → change the Landmark Role to 'none' or remove it.
4. In Wix Studio, open the Pages & Layers panel, expand the Header section, and ensure no other section outside the designated header has role='banner' assigned via the Accessibility settings.
5. Publish and test with the axe browser extension.

What is landmark no duplicate banner?

A "banner landmark" is the main header area of a webpage — the section that typically contains your logo, site-wide navigation, and branding. In HTML it is created by a top-level `<header>` element or any element with `role="banner"`. Assistive technologies like screen readers use landmarks as shortcuts so users can jump straight to the part of the page they need. The WCAG rule is simple: a page should have only one banner landmark. When two or more exist (e.g. a sticky header plus a secondary `<header>` in the page body, or a theme component that accidentally duplicates the tag), screen readers announce "banner" more than once and users cannot reliably find the true top of your site.

Blind and low-vision shoppers who rely on screen readers navigate pages by jumping between landmarks. If there are two banners, their software cannot tell them which is the real site header, forcing them to listen to redundant announcements or give up entirely. This directly hurts conversions from assistive technology users — a segment estimated at 15–20 % of the global population with some form of disability. Legally, WCAG 2.1 AA compliance is required or strongly expected under the ADA (US), EAA (EU), AODA (Canada), and similar laws; duplicate-landmark violations are cited in accessibility lawsuits and audits. Fixing it also tends to tighten your HTML structure, which search engines reward with slightly better crawlability.

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