How to fix link name on Wix Studio
Add a descriptive, screen-reader-accessible text label to every link on your store so assistive technology can announce its purpose.
Steps for Wix Studio
- In Wix Studio, click any link element (icon, image, button) on the canvas to select it.
- Open the right-hand Inspector panel and scroll to the 'Accessibility' section.
- Enter a meaningful description in the 'ARIA Label' field (e.g. 'Go to product page for Blue Running Shoes').
- For elements embedded in repeaters (e.g. product grids), set the label dynamically using the dataset/content binding — e.g. bind aria-label to the product name field so every card gets a unique, accurate label.
- Publish and verify with axe DevTools or WAVE.
What is link name?
Every clickable link on a webpage must have a meaningful text label that screen readers can announce to blind or low-vision users. A "link-name" failure means a link exists on your page but has no readable text — it might be an icon-only button (like a shopping cart or social media icon), an image link with no alt text, or an empty `<a>` tag. The WCAG 2.4.4 criterion ("Link Purpose") requires that the purpose of each link can be determined from the link text alone, or from its immediate surrounding context. Without a name, a screen reader will announce something useless like "link" or read out the raw URL instead of telling the user where the link goes or what it does.
Accessibility failures like this expose your store to legal risk under laws such as the ADA (US), AODA (Canada), EAA (EU), and Equality Act (UK) — lawsuits targeting e-commerce sites for WCAG non-compliance have increased sharply year over year. Beyond legal risk, approximately 7–8 million screen reader users in the US alone cannot navigate or purchase from a store with unnamed links, directly costing you sales. Google's crawlers also use link anchor text as a ranking signal, so unnamed links pass zero topical relevance to the pages they point to, weakening your internal linking SEO. Fixing this is typically a quick-win code change that immediately improves both accessibility compliance and search engine crawlability.
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