An Iframe Audit for the Pages Inside Your Pages

What We Keep Finding

Every iframe is a page inside your page, with its own rules and its own failures. An untitled frame gives a screen reader user nothing to go on. Keyboard focus wanders into an embed and cannot find its way back out. And the embed's own content arrives with whatever accessibility its vendor gave it, which you find out about at the same time your customer does.

The frame title is the one thing here a machine gets right, so it is worth saying plainly. Our free scan finds missing iframe titles, today, at no cost. Everything else on this page needs a person, because a tool cannot open your booking widget and try to book. That is the whole free-versus-paid line running straight through one page's checklist, and you can have the free half before you decide about the rest.

The part that gets underestimated is what an embed does to the page around it. Two rules here do not care whose code it is. A keyboard trap inside a frame stops the entire page conforming, at any level. And where a frame sits inside a purchase or a booking, every page in that process has to work for the process to count, so a payment frame nobody can complete does not fail on its own. It takes your whole checkout with it.

Maps deserve a note of their own, because they attract findings that are not real. A map is allowed to scroll in two directions where a page is not. Its color gradients are allowed to fall below the contrast requirement where they carry a measurement. And a map that pans using the browser's own scrolling is outside the dragging rule entirely, while one that suppresses native scrolling and implements its own is inside it. We test to those exceptions rather than through them.