Hosting.com Accessibility Checker

Accessibility on Hosting.com

Hosting.com hosts everything from WordPress sites to custom applications. Whatever you run, accessibility is decided by the code, templates and content you publish, not the hosting plan underneath.

That makes a regular scan useful whatever your stack: it tests the finished page your visitors actually receive.

WebAIM’s annual analysis of the top one million home pages finds detectable WCAG failures on the vast majority of them, year after year, with low-contrast text, missing alternative text and missing form labels among the most common. (opens in a new tab, source: WebAIM Million)

Common Accessibility Issues on Hosting.com Sites

• Missing text alternatives

  Images, icons and image links published without alt text or accessible names.

• Color contrast

  Text and buttons with too little contrast against their background, often from theme or brand colors.

• Form accessibility

  Fields without visible labels, and errors that are shown only in color or never announced.

• Keyboard access

  Menus, dialogs and custom widgets that cannot be reached or closed with a keyboard.

• Page structure

  Missing page language, skipped heading levels and missing landmarks that make pages hard to navigate with a screen reader.

How AccessBell Scans Your Hosting.com Site

1. Enter any public page. Paste the address of a page on your Hosting.com site into the scanner above. There is nothing to install on your hosting account: no plugin, no code snippet and no login.
2. We load it in a real browser. AccessBell opens the page in headless Chrome and runs its scripts, so it tests what your visitors actually see, including content added by your theme, builder or plugins.
3. We run the WCAG rules. The open-source axe-core engine checks the page against the standard you choose, and every result is mapped to the WCAG success criteria it affects.
4. You get a report in seconds. Each issue comes with the failing HTML and how to fix it. Our methodology explains exactly what runs and what still needs a person.

What's Included in Every Scan

• 63 automated rules for WCAG 2.2 Level AA, or presets for WCAG 2.1 AA, the ADA, Section 508 and EN 301 549
• Every issue ranked by severity, from critical to minor
• The WCAG success criteria each issue fails, which you can look up in our WCAG library
• The failing HTML, so you can find the element in your site editor or code
• How to fix each issue, with a link to the rule's full documentation
• A list of checks that need a person to review, so nothing is missed
• Filters by WCAG version, level, principle, success criterion and severity

The free scan checks one page at a time. AccessBell Pro scans up to 500 pages per domain every day and alerts you when something changes.

How to Fix What the Scan Finds

1. Fix issues at the source: in the template, component or theme that produces them, so every page that uses it is fixed together.
2. Add scans to your release routine, so new issues are caught before they reach visitors.
3. Run a free scan above on your homepage and a few key pages, fix issues starting with critical and serious, then rescan to confirm.
4. For ongoing protection, AccessBell Pro monitors up to 500 URLs per domain every day and alerts you when a theme, app or plugin update introduces a new issue.

Related Guides

• Automated vs Manual Accessibility Testing: Where Each FitsWhat automated accessibility testing catches, what needs a human, and how to combine both into a repeatable process that keeps your website WCAG compliant.
• Keyboard Accessibility TestingA practical guide to keyboard accessibility testing: what to check, the exact keys to use, and a component-by-component reference table mapped to WCAG.
• WCAG 1.1.1 Non-text Content Explained in Plain EnglishWCAG 1.1.1 Non-text Content explained simply: how to write alt text for every kind of image, icon, chart and CAPTCHA, with code examples and a test routine.
• WCAG Success Criteria LibraryLook up any success criterion the scan flags, in plain language.
• Free Accessibility Statement GeneratorPublish a statement once your Hosting.com site's known issues are fixed.

Hosting.com Accessibility — Frequently Asked Questions