AldoMedia publishes several free scanning tools. This page explains exactly what they test, how the scores are produced, what they cannot tell you, and what happens to the information you enter. Last reviewed July 25, 2026 by Aldo Giammusso.

How the scans work

You submit one URL. Our server requests that single page over HTTP and reads the HTML the server sends back. Every check runs against that HTML.

Two consequences follow from this, and they matter:

• We do not run your JavaScript. The scan sees the HTML your server returns, not the page a browser builds afterwards. If your site renders its content, navigation or alt text with JavaScript, our tools will not see that content and may report it as missing.
• We scan one page, not your website. Results describe the URL you submitted. Nothing is inferred about the rest of your site.

We also cannot reach anything behind a login, a paywall, a firewall, or a bot-blocking service. If a scan comes back empty or strange, that is usually why.

How the score is calculated

Each check either passes or fails, and each carries a weight reflecting how much it typically matters. The score is the weight you earned divided by the total weight available, expressed as a percentage and rounded to a whole number. A score of 100 means every check we run passed. It does not mean the page is perfect, compliant, or safe, because the score can only reflect the checks listed below.

Website Legal-Risk Signals Scan

The legal-risk scan tests 20 signals: SSL certificate, privacy policy, terms of service, accessibility statement, cookie consent, business address, phone number, email contact, contact form, secure form action, mobile viewport, responsive layout, image alt text, language tag, page title, H1 heading, form labels, copyright notice, mixed content, and ARIA landmarks.

Most of these are presence checks. We can see whether a privacy policy is linked and reachable; we cannot read it and judge whether it describes your actual data practices, covers the right jurisdictions, or says anything accurate. The same applies to your terms of service and accessibility statement. An automated scan cannot determine legal compliance, and nothing it reports is legal advice.

Automated Accessibility Precheck

The accessibility precheck tests alt text, colour contrast, form labels, ARIA roles, heading order, keyboard access, focus indicators, skip links, language tag, page title, link text, button labels, landmark regions, document outline, captions and media, tap target size, auto-refresh, tables, iframes, and the presence of an accessibility statement.

Automated tooling can only evaluate a portion of the WCAG 2.1 success criteria. It can tell you an image has no alt attribute; it cannot tell you whether the alt text you wrote is meaningful. It can find a heading-order jump; it cannot tell you whether your focus order makes sense to someone using a keyboard, or whether a screen reader announces your content usefully. Passing this precheck is not a statement of WCAG conformance or of ADA compliance. A manual audit, ideally including testing with assistive technology, is the only way to answer that.

Online Reputation Scanner

The reputation scanner looks for public search results associated with a name and groups what it finds: search visibility, LinkedIn and social profiles, professional listings, news and media mentions, review and rating platforms, complaint boards, scam reports, lawsuit and court-record mentions, industry directories, domain diversity, sentiment, Wikipedia presence and personal website.

It reports what is publicly visible to an automated search at the moment you run it. It cannot confirm that a result actually refers to you rather than to someone with the same name, it does not see private or deleted content, and its sentiment grouping is a rough signal rather than a judgement about you.

Other tools

The SEO and AI revenue calculator produces an estimate from the figures you enter. It is arithmetic on your own assumptions, not a forecast, and changing the inputs changes the answer. The code error checker reports HTML validation problems. The SEO score tool and AI readiness scanner follow the same single-page, no-JavaScript approach described above.

What we do with what you enter

The scanning forms ask for your name, email address, phone number, company and the URL to scan. That information is emailed to AldoMedia and written to a log file on our server so we can send you the results and follow up about your website. We use Google reCAPTCHA on the forms to block automated abuse, which means Google receives data about your interaction with the form under its own terms. See our privacy policy for how we handle personal information, and contact us if you want your submission deleted.

Corrections

If one of these tools reports something you believe is wrong about your site, tell us and include the URL you scanned. Misreported checks are a bug and we want to know. Our editorial and corrections policy covers how we handle that.