Webflow accessibility and the EAA

Where Webflow sites usually fail

The most common issue is elements built to look like buttons or links but implemented as plain <div> elements with a click handler — visually indistinguishable from a real button, but invisible to keyboard navigation and unannounced to screen readers unless the designer explicitly added role and tabindex attributes. Custom interactions (Webflow's built-in animation/interaction system) are the second most common source: a dropdown or modal that opens on hover or scroll with no keyboard-triggered equivalent leaves keyboard-only users unable to reach it at all.

The flexibility cuts both ways

Because Webflow doesn't impose a fixed component library, there's no platform-level accessibility floor to rely on the way there partly is with Squarespace's default section structure. A well-built Webflow site, done by a designer who deliberately uses semantic tags and Webflow's accessibility panel (custom ARIA attributes, alt text, heading levels), can be genuinely excellent. A site built purely by visual drag-and-drop without that discipline usually isn't — and there's no way to tell which one you have without actually running a scan against it.

Does the EAA apply to a Webflow site?

Yes, on the same basis as every platform here: EU consumer-facing sites belonging to a non-micro-enterprise need to meet the EAA's requirements, regardless of the tool used to build the site.

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