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Five Accessibility Failures We Keep Finding on Webflow Sites — and the Designer Settings That Cause Them.

DEV Community·AgentKit·about 1 month ago
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If you built your site on Webflow, you probably picked it because the Designer gives you precise control over the HTML and CSS in a way drag-and-drop builders normally do not. That precision is real. The DOM Webflow ships is cleaner than what comes out of WordPress page builders, and the team has invested in semantic defaults across most components. The trade-off is that Webflow gives the designer responsibility for the things a CMS would normally make uneditable. Heading levels, ARIA roles, focus management, motion preferences — all of it lives in panels the designer can change, and the defaults are tuned for visual flexibility, not screen readers. We have audited a meaningful number of Webflow sites in the last few months. Five patterns show up on roughly every one. None of them are platform limitations. All five are fixable in the Designer without writing custom JavaScript. Three of them are settings most designers do not know exist.…

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