How to fix landmark no duplicate contentinfo on Wix

Steps for Wix

1. Open the Wix Editor for your site. Click on the Footer section at the bottom of the page — in Wix, this is automatically rendered as a <footer role="contentinfo"> in the published HTML.
2. Wix does not allow direct HTML editing of the footer landmark itself, but check for any additional 'Footer' sections you may have added: in the Pages & Menu panel, look under each page for custom sections tagged as footers.
3. If you have added an HTML Embed widget (Add → Embed → HTML iframe or Custom Code) that contains a <footer> or role="contentinfo", open it and edit the custom HTML to change the element to a <div>.
4. For third-party apps from the Wix App Market that inject extra footer markup, check the app's settings panel for an 'HTML wrapper' or 'accessibility' option, or contact the app developer.
5. Use Wix's built-in SEO & Accessibility checker (Marketing & SEO → Get Found on Google → SEO Tools) and also test with the WAVE browser extension on the published site URL.

What is landmark no duplicate contentinfo?

Every webpage has structural "landmarks" — invisible signposts that screen readers and assistive technology use to navigate the page. The `contentinfo` landmark marks the site-wide footer: the area containing copyright notices, legal links, contact details, and similar site-level information. This landmark is created automatically by an HTML `<footer>` element that is a direct child of `<body>`, or explicitly by adding `role="contentinfo"` to any element. The rule is simple: a page should have exactly one `contentinfo` landmark. If your page contains two or more (for example, a sticky footer widget in addition to your main footer, or a chat widget that injects its own `<footer>`), assistive technology gets confused about which one is the "real" site footer.

Screen reader users — an estimated 7–8 million people in the US alone — rely on landmark navigation to jump directly to page sections without listening to every word. When two `contentinfo` landmarks exist, screen readers either announce both confusingly or skip one entirely, making it harder for visually impaired shoppers to find your return policy, contact information, or legal pages. Beyond accessibility and the real legal risk of ADA/WCAG non-compliance lawsuits (which have steadily increased year-over-year for ecommerce sites), Google's crawler also uses semantic page structure as a quality signal — clean, well-structured HTML is associated with better crawling and indexing. Fixing this issue is also a prerequisite for passing WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.3.6 (Identify Purpose), which is increasingly required by law in the EU, UK, and US.

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