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January 17, 2026 at 1:34 am #1494027

sky19er
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My client hired a company to run an accessibility review and one of the items they flagged was multiple “main” areas (see https://snipboard.io/YJ8Ba1.jpg ) — looks to me like it’s really just a 2nd “main” landmark coming from my use of a footer page (example page: https://abodedev.wpengine.com/impact/housing/) (hosted on WPengine) — is there anything we can do to avoid or change that “main” in the footer page?

Thanks and lmk if you have questions.

January 20, 2026 at 6:05 am #1494090
Ismael
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Hey sky19er,

Thank you for the inquiry.

The second main element is coming from the footer page. You may need to adjust this with a custom script added to the functions.php file.
```
add_action('wp_footer', function () {
    ?>
    <script>
        jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
            var $main = $('#footer-page .container main');

            if ($main.length) {
                $main.replaceWith(function () {
                    return $('<div>', {
                        html: $main.html(),
                        class: $main.attr('class'),
                        id: $main.attr('id')
                    });
                });
            }
        });
    </script>
    <?php
}, 999);
```
Best regards,
Ismael
January 21, 2026 at 1:23 am #1494114

sky19er
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Thanks so much, Ismael, but this doesn’t seem to be working for me as-is — I dropped it in at the top of the functions.php for the child theme (https://snipboard.io/G9XSTj.jpg), but I’m still seeing two “main” landmarks (one for the footer-page) on https://abodedev.wpengine.com/about/story/ for example. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

January 21, 2026 at 5:43 am #1494117

Ismael
Moderator

Hi,

Thank you for the update.

The footer page or section is now wrapped in a div element. Please try to purge the cache before checking the page.

Best regards,
Ismael

January 21, 2026 at 8:04 pm #1494137

sky19er
Participant

Ah, sorry — I see what you’re seeing when I use the inspector, but for some reason — no matter how much I clear the cache, use different browsers, private windows, etc. — if I view the page source I still see that 2nd “main” (https://snipboard.io/ZYdU26.jpg) — is it just that the page source somehow sticks in the cache in a way I don’t understand / know how to clear?

January 22, 2026 at 5:40 am #1494152

Ismael
Moderator

Hi,

We checked it again today, and the footer page now contains a div element instead of main. Please try to connect to a different network and then check it again.

Best regards,
Ismael

February 19, 2026 at 1:04 am #1495202

sky19er
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Ahh, apparently the issue is I’ve been viewing the page source, as opposed to checking in the inspector — the page source still shows the 2nd main, but the inspector shows the change to div. Lmk if I’m wrong about that — otherwise I think I’m set on this one and you can close the thread, thank you!

February 19, 2026 at 2:56 pm #1495228

Ismael
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Hi,

We’re not sure what you meant by page source, but the last time we checked the footer page, it was a div element instead of a main container. Please feel free to open another thread if you have more questions.

Have a nice day.

Best regards,
Ismael
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