Kris Rivenburgh explains why Wix's "accessibility-certified site creator" exam for planning and building accessible websites is problematic.  Wix's is a widely recognized brand name and bestowing accessibility certification on any one who scores 75% on a 30 question multiple choice exam will mean everyone, including people who aren't qualified, can be certified in website accessibility.

Also, Wix's own level of accessibility is nowhere near the mastery that is needed to issue certification of others.  They should partner with a reputable organization like WebAIM if they want to do this.

Wix's accessibility certification page:

https://www.wix.com/learn/certification/accessibility

Watch Kris discuss how to certify your website as accessible:

https://youtu.be/NCfmS5LOc1w

Read Kris's landmark article on ADA website compliance:

https://krisrivenburgh.medium.com/the-ada-checklist-website-compliance-guidelines-for-2019-in-plain-english-123c1d58fad9

Kris designed the ADA Compliance Course (ACC) as instructions you can give your team to fix the most commonly claimed issues in ADA website lawsuits. The ACC is really an SOP for your web team. Your team can get started in minutes at https://ADACompliance.net/.

Watch Kris on YouTube @adabook:

https://youtube.com/@adabook

Connect with Kris directly on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/adabook 

The ADA Compliance Course is available at https://ADACompliance.net.

Kris offers accessibility services including WCAG 2.1 AA manual audits and remediation at https://accessible.org.

Kris also wrote the book on ADA compliance for digital assets.  You can find out more about The ADA Book at https://ADABook.com..

Transcript:

https://adabook.com/wix-accessibility-certification-problems/