What this means

When using the Siteimprove browser extension while editing content in SiteNow, you may see a flag for "container element is empty." This is triggered by Siteimprove rule SIA-R60, which checks that container elements used for grouping have accessible names. The flag points to elements inside CKEditor's internal markup, not your page content.

Scope

This article applies only to flags on CKEditor live region elements found via the Siteimprove browser extension on admin/editing pages. This flag does not appear in regular Siteimprove site scans and does not affect your published pages or their accessibility scores.

Why this is a false positive

CKEditor 5 creates hidden "live region" containers that screen readers use to announce changes as you edit (e.g. when an action succeeds or content is updated). These containers are intentionally empty until CKEditor has something to announce, at which point it fills them temporarily.

Siteimprove sees the empty containers and flags them, but this is how live regions are designed to work. The containers are not visible to visitors and do not affect your published page.

This is a known upstream issue in CKEditor (ckeditor5#18561) and is not something that should be fixed at the SiteNow level.

What action is needed

Since this flag only appears via the browser extension on admin pages, no action is needed as it should not affect your site's Siteimprove report. If you do see it in a report, you can dismiss it as a false positive.