How to fix listitem on Wix

Steps for Wix

1. Open your site in the Wix Editor. Wix generates its own HTML, so you cannot directly edit the DOM of built-in widgets — but you can address this in two ways.
2. For lists inside rich-text elements (e.g. a text box with bullet points): click the text element → use the Wix text toolbar to apply the built-in 'Bulleted List' or 'Numbered List' formatting, which outputs correct `<ul><li>` markup.
3. For navigation menus or repeaters, Wix's built-in menu widgets output their own HTML. If the scanner is flagging a Wix built-in component, report the issue to Wix support — you cannot change the underlying markup of core widgets.
4. For custom HTML needs, add a Wix HTML iframe embed (Add → Embed → HTML iframe) and write your own accessible `<ul><li>` list markup directly inside it.
5. If you use Wix Studio (formerly Editor X), use the custom code panel (Settings → Custom Code) to inject or correct HTML markup in blocks that support it.
6. Publish the site and verify using the axe DevTools browser extension on the live URL.

What is listitem?

HTML lists are built from two parts: a container (`<ul>` for unordered, `<ol>` for ordered) and its items (`<li>`). When a `<li>` element's parent is something other than `<ul>`, `<ol>`, or an element with `role="list"`, the list structure is broken. This means a screen reader — the software blind and low-vision shoppers use to navigate — cannot tell the user they are inside a list, how many items it contains, or let them jump between items efficiently. The WCAG success criterion 1.3.1 (Info and Relationships) requires that structure conveyed visually (like a list of product features or navigation links) also be conveyed in the underlying code.

Screen reader users rely on correct list markup to understand and navigate your page — if list items are orphaned from their parent container, assistive technology may read each item as isolated, unrelated text, destroying the meaning of product feature lists, navigation menus, breadcrumbs, and shopping cart line items. This is a WCAG 2.x Level A failure (the most severe category), which creates legal accessibility risk under laws like the ADA in the US, the EAA in Europe, and equivalent legislation worldwide — online retailers have faced lawsuits and regulatory action over exactly these kinds of structural failures. Beyond legal risk, poor accessibility can reduce conversions from the roughly 1-in-4 adults who have a disability, and Google's crawlers also use semantic structure to understand page content, so clean markup supports SEO as a secondary benefit.

See the complete Listitem guide for every platform and the full background.