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What we checked on this site

https://paddle.com

Declared goal

Get people to write or call me

This report is written for whoever can change this site. If that is not you, pass it on.

September 14, 2026·evidence captured during the analysis

This is the report we issued on September 26, 2026. We have not edited it since.

1

Diagnose

What we were able to measure

We reviewed 11 of the 83 linked pages, at 1280 px and 390 px. Everything we say below comes from these captures, and each statement has the measurement it comes from underneath it.

Screenshot of the first screen of the page, as it looked when we read it, in a 1280×800 window.
Screenshot of the first screen of the page, as it looked when we read it, in a 390×844 window.

First screen at 1280×800 and at 390×844, as it looked when we read it. Where the first screen ends depends on the window size. Open them at full size to see it.

First screen at 1280×800 and at 390×844, as it looked when we read it. Where the first screen ends depends on the window size. Open them at full size to see it.

What you can leave as it isSee
Other things we observed, none of which point to a problem.See
What its forms ask forSee
What we checked and what was left outSee
The measurements, one by oneSee

We ran 6 checks. Complete: 2. Partial: 3. Not measured: 1. With that, we flag 2 changes for you.

2

Decide

What you can decide

Each one is a change you can make, with the measurement it comes from and how to check that it is done. In stage 3 we tell you in what order we would make them.

They are ordered by how they relate to what you chose, not by urgency. Which one you work on first is a decision this report does not make.

Related to what you asked for: Get people to write or call me.

We could not check it fully.

  • Act

    Write the alt text for these images

    Why we say this —On these pages we found at least one image with no alt. It appears on 10 of the 11 pages we reviewed.

    Anyone using a screen reader gets nothing from them. If one of them carries information that is not also in the text, that person misses it entirely.

    You will know it is done whenthose images declare their alt text.

    It appears on 10 of the 11 pages we reviewed.

    Where: /, /billing/invoicing, /app-staying-in-the-fast-lane, /customers/helping-nexus-mods-unlock-the-gaming-community, /customers/hubx-sells-mobile-apps-on-the-web-with-paddle, /lovable-payments-faq, /customers/how-renderforest-unlocked-3x-arr-growth, /customers/kaleido-software-launch, /customers/macpaw-move-to-saas, /resources/merchant-of-record-a-guide-for-cfos

    The measurement: We found no alt attribute on those images. A decorative image is declared with alt="", and we do not count those here.

    Confirm it in the code: every image on those pages has its alt text

    What we do not know about this check: Partial. Visible focus does not show in a still capture, so we did not check it.

    The evidence

  • Act

    Darken the text that does not reach the minimum against its background

    Why we say this —At least one piece of text on these pages falls below the minimum contrast that applies to it. It appears on 6 of the 11 pages we reviewed.

    In low light, in bright light or with tired eyes, this text blends into the background. Anyone who does not read it, does not read it.

    Lightening the background also works, or changing both. We give you one so you do not have to choose.

    You will know it is done wheneach pair reaches the minimum that applies to it.

    It appears on 6 of the 11 pages we reviewed.

    Where: /app-staying-in-the-fast-lane, /customers/helping-nexus-mods-unlock-the-gaming-community, /customers/hubx-sells-mobile-apps-on-the-web-with-paddle, /customers/how-renderforest-unlocked-3x-arr-growth, /customers/kaleido-software-launch, /demo

    The measurement: We measure against the reference the check itself brings: 4.5 to 1 for normal text and 3 to 1 for large text. We did not set it. We do not measure text that sits on an image or a gradient: the check cannot work out the background color, and those cases never get this far.

    Confirm it with the eyedropper in the browser inspector: each of the color pairs listed in the full report now reaches its minimum

    What we do not know about this check: Partial. Visible focus does not show in a still capture, so we did not check it.

    The evidence

What the evidence does not allow you to decide

Found in the review, with no demonstrated relation to what you asked for.

  • On all 11 pages we reviewed, there are external domains that load before anyone touches anything. On the page with the most, there are 64.

    At 390 pixels we saw a cookie notice on 1 of the 11 pages in this review and could not close it: we do not know what would have loaded after answering it. At 1280 pixels we did not detect it, and that does not mean it is not there.

    Among them: ad.doubleclick.net, alb.reddit.com, analytics.sayprimer.com. Plus 70 more.

    It appears on all 11 pages we reviewed. · at both widths

    Where: /, /demo, /billing/invoicing, /app-staying-in-the-fast-lane, /customers/helping-nexus-mods-unlock-the-gaming-community, /customers/hubx-sells-mobile-apps-on-the-web-with-paddle, /lovable-payments-faq, /customers/how-renderforest-unlocked-3x-arr-growth, /customers/kaleido-software-launch, /customers/macpaw-move-to-saas, /resources/merchant-of-record-a-guide-for-cfos

    Check before you touch it: we do not measure this.

    What we do not know about this check: Partial. This check only covers the domains the page called while loading. We do not judge whether what the page does with those domains is lawful.

    The evidence

3

Act

What to do, and in what order

2 changes, in the order we would make them. If you are only going to change one thing, change the first one.

Where this order comes from: three things we measured — how much it overlaps with what you asked us for, whether we could check it fully or only partly, and on how many of the 11 reviewed pages it appears. What we checked fully goes before what we checked partly. We do not measure how much each change costs, so if the first is expensive and the third is one line, start with the third.

Declare the alt text for these images

How to check it: Confirm it in the code: every image on those pages has its alt text

10 of the 11 pages · overlaps with “Get people to write or call me” · the card

Raise the contrast of this text against its background

How to check it: Confirm it with the eyedropper in the browser inspector: each of the color pairs listed in the full report now reaches its minimum

6 of the 11 pages · overlaps with “Get people to write or call me” · the card

What you can leave as it is

We looked at this in full and found nothing to fix.

  • Observed forms

Other things we observed, none of which point to a problem.

There are 7 facts.

  • We counted 315 images on the pages we reviewed. 127 of them are declared as decorative.
  • The main heading of / says: “Sell globally. Grow without the complexity.”.
  • The main heading of /demo says: “See how Paddle can grow your revenue”.
  • The main heading of /billing/invoicing says: “Invoicing Software”.
  • And 8 more.
  • 11 of the 11 pages we reviewed have a title, a description and sharing data.

  • Observed forms

    We looked at it on every page we read and found nothing to flag.

What its forms ask for

A form without a title inside the form itself. If there is a heading just above it but outside it, we do not count it.

  • A form without a title of its own asks for 7 details. 5 of them are required. It is on /demo.
  • A form without a title of its own asks for 5 details. 5 of them are required. It is on /app-staying-in-the-fast-lane.
  • A form without a title of its own asks for 1 detail, and it is required. It is on /resources/merchant-of-record-a-guide-for-cfos.

Why it matters: Every detail asked for before getting an answer is one more decision for whoever fills it in.

We counted what the form asked for when it opened; it may ask for more as you go. We only see the forms the page declares as forms.

What we checked and what was left out

This report looks at this site at 390 pixels wide, with the same checks we run on desktop. There are three things specific to mobile that we do not check yet: the size of what has to be tapped, whether the phone zooms in on the page when a field is tapped, and what text size is left afterwards. That we do not name them does not mean they are fine: it means we have not looked at them.

We read 11 pages on desktop, and all of them could also be read on mobile.

Consent notice: we could not determine whether there was one on 11 of the 11 pages of this review. On those pages, what we describe is what loaded before we responded to anything; if the notice exists, content that only appears afterwards may be missing.

We read 11 of the 83 pages we found linked from the one you gave us. We start with the pages in the main navigation; footer links go last. Besides the page you gave us, we read up to 10 more pages per diagnostic. Here we reached that limit.

What we did and on what

We read 11 pages on September 14, 2026. We have 3 findings, in 2 groups. There are 2 more that we only show with their evidence.

How we chose which pages to read. We followed the links on www.paddle.com and found 180 anchors. 87 were repeated and 11 pointed outside the site.

We ran 6 checks. Complete: 2. Partial: 3. Not measured: 1.

  • https://www.paddle.com/
  • https://www.paddle.com/demo
  • https://www.paddle.com/billing/invoicing
  • https://www.paddle.com/app-staying-in-the-fast-lane
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/helping-nexus-mods-unlock-the-gaming-community
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/hubx-sells-mobile-apps-on-the-web-with-paddle
  • https://www.paddle.com/lovable-payments-faq
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/how-renderforest-unlocked-3x-arr-growth
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/kaleido-software-launch
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/macpaw-move-to-saas
  • https://www.paddle.com/resources/merchant-of-record-a-guide-for-cfos

We ran 6 checks. Complete: 2. Partial: 3. Not measured: 1.

With that, we flag 2 changes. In 1 case, we hold back.

Where we did not look

Each abstention with its cause and its scope. Absence of observation is not absence of the problem.

  • Links whose destination we could not determine · on 11 pages we read

    We cannot tell which are links that lead nowhere and which are buttons that work — tabs and dropdowns are written the same way. We do not claim that any of them is broken.

  • Computed accessibility

    Partial. Visible focus does not show in a still capture, so we did not check it.

  • Navigation and links

    Partial. We checked links with no declared destination, but we did not follow any, so we do not detect a link that leads to a page that does not exist.

  • First screen and calls to action

    Not measured. A fixed layer sat over the first screen, and we cannot separate what is underneath.

  • Third parties and consent

    Partial. This check only covers the domains the page called while loading. We do not judge whether what the page does with those domains is lawful.

  • Comparison with a reference population

    We do not yet compare this site with any reference corpus.

LIMITS OF THIS REVIEW

  • These observations are limited to the reviewed pages listed above.

  • The pages we did not read are not in these observations: nothing this report says refers to them.

  • What we count as a link or button: links, buttons, controls that submit a form, and anything that declares a link or button role. If something acts as a control without declaring itself one, we do not see it.

  • We measure contrast against the reference the check itself comes with: 4.5 to 1 for normal text and 3 to 1 for large text. It is not a threshold of our own. We do not measure text placed over an image or a gradient: the check cannot determine the background color, and those cases do not reach these observations.

  • This review looked at the site in its light version. If the site changes its appearance when the computer or phone is in dark mode, that version has not been looked at, and what we say here about contrast does not apply to it.

  • This review was done from the Netherlands, within the European Union. A visitor from outside the European Union may not see the same thing: some sites change depending on where they are requested from.

  • Fixed layers are measured in each of the windows used in this review. At another window size, the part of the first screen that is covered changes, and a layer that covers nothing in one window may cover something in another.

  • We do not count images declared as decorative: an image is declared decorative with alt="", and that is a choice made by whoever put it there. We trust that declaration; we do not check whether the image really is decorative.

  • When we review the declared type of a field, we go by its name and its label. We do not check what is typed into it, so a field whose name does not announce what it expects can go by without us flagging it.

  • This review abstains on 6 points. Each one, with its cause and its scope, is under “Where we did not look”.

The measurements, one by one

On 10 of the 11 pages we reviewed, we found images without alt text.

F1 · Computed accessibility

Why it matters: A screen reader cannot describe them.

It appears on 10 of the 11 pages we reviewed. Among them: /, /billing/invoicing, /app-staying-in-the-fast-lane. Plus 7 more.

We found no alt attribute on those images. A decorative image is declared with alt="", and we do not count those here.

The count for each page

  • https://www.paddle.com/ · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/billing/invoicing · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/app-staying-in-the-fast-lane · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/helping-nexus-mods-unlock-the-gaming-community · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/hubx-sells-mobile-apps-on-the-web-with-paddle · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/lovable-payments-faq · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/how-renderforest-unlocked-3x-arr-growth · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/kaleido-software-launch · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/macpaw-move-to-saas · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/resources/merchant-of-record-a-guide-for-cfos · 2

Where it is

img

About this check: Partial. Visible focus does not show in a still capture, so we did not check it.

If you decide to change it: One attribute per image. We have not tested the change, so we do not know what else is affected.

On 6 of the 11 pages we reviewed, there are pieces of text that barely stand out from their background.

F1 · Computed accessibility

Why it matters: It is hard to read against the color behind it.

It appears on 6 of the 11 pages we reviewed. Among them: /app-staying-in-the-fast-lane, /customers/helping-nexus-mods-unlock-the-gaming-community, /customers/hubx-sells-mobile-apps-on-the-web-with-paddle. Plus 3 more.

We measure against the reference the check itself brings: 4.5 to 1 for normal text and 3 to 1 for large text. We did not set it. We do not measure text that sits on an image or a gradient: the check cannot work out the background color, and those cases never get this far.

The measured colors, with their page

  • 3.67The text is #7e765d on #ebe7df · once on https://www.paddle.com/app-staying-in-the-fast-lane · it says “Paddle needs your contact information to contact you about our product and services. You m”
  • 4.47The text is #74736f on #f9f8f7 · 9 times on https://www.paddle.com/customers/helping-nexus-mods-unlock-the-gaming-community · it says “Tom Mason, Director, Nexus Mods”
  • 4.47The text is #74736f on #f9f8f7 · 9 times on https://www.paddle.com/customers/hubx-sells-mobile-apps-on-the-web-with-paddle · it says “Kaan Ortabas, co-founder, HubX”
  • 4.47The text is #74736f on #f9f8f7 · 8 times on https://www.paddle.com/customers/how-renderforest-unlocked-3x-arr-growth · it says “Narek Safaryan, CEO & Founder, Renderforest”
  • 4.47The text is #74736f on #f9f8f7 · 3 times on https://www.paddle.com/customers/kaleido-software-launch · it says “Alexander Brix, COO, Kaleido”
  • 3.67The text is #7e765d on #ebe7df · once on https://www.paddle.com/demo · it says “Paddle needs your contact information to contact you about our products. For information o”

About this check: Partial. Visible focus does not show in a still capture, so we did not check it.

If you decide to change it: Change one color in the stylesheet. We have not tested the change, so we do not know what else is affected.

On all 11 pages we reviewed, there are external domains that load before anyone touches anything. On the page with the most, there are 64.

F6 · Third parties and consent

At 390 pixels we saw a cookie notice on 1 of the 11 pages in this review and could not close it: we do not know what would have loaded after answering it. At 1280 pixels we did not detect it, and that does not mean it is not there.

Among them: ad.doubleclick.net, alb.reddit.com, analytics.sayprimer.com. Plus 70 more.

It appears on 11 of the 11 pages we reviewed. Among them: /, /demo, /billing/invoicing. Plus 8 more.

at both widths

The count for each page

  • https://www.paddle.com/ · 61
  • https://www.paddle.com/demo · 63
  • https://www.paddle.com/billing/invoicing · 60
  • https://www.paddle.com/app-staying-in-the-fast-lane · 64
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/helping-nexus-mods-unlock-the-gaming-community · 61
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/hubx-sells-mobile-apps-on-the-web-with-paddle · 62
  • https://www.paddle.com/lovable-payments-faq · 62
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/how-renderforest-unlocked-3x-arr-growth · 61
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/kaleido-software-launch · 62
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/macpaw-move-to-saas · 62
  • https://www.paddle.com/resources/merchant-of-record-a-guide-for-cfos · 63

Where it is

network

About this check: Partial. This check only covers the domains the page called while loading. We do not judge whether what the page does with those domains is lawful.

No fix proposed: this is a decision worth consulting on.

On all 11 pages we reviewed, there are headings that skip levels.

F1 · Computed accessibility

Why it matters: Anyone navigating by headings loses the thread of the document.

It appears on 11 of the 11 pages we reviewed. Among them: /, /billing/invoicing, /app-staying-in-the-fast-lane. Plus 8 more.

We look at the order of the heading levels (h1, h2, h3…) as they appear in the document, and here there is a skip between levels. We do not judge what each heading says.

The count for each page

  • https://www.paddle.com/ · 1
  • https://www.paddle.com/billing/invoicing · 1
  • https://www.paddle.com/app-staying-in-the-fast-lane · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/helping-nexus-mods-unlock-the-gaming-community · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/hubx-sells-mobile-apps-on-the-web-with-paddle · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/lovable-payments-faq · 1
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/how-renderforest-unlocked-3x-arr-growth · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/kaleido-software-launch · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/customers/macpaw-move-to-saas · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/resources/merchant-of-record-a-guide-for-cfos · 2
  • https://www.paddle.com/demo · 2

Where it is

h1..h6

About this check: Partial. Visible focus does not show in a still capture, so we did not check it.

If you decide to change it: Change the level of the tag, not how it looks. We have not tested the change, so we do not know what else is affected.

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Provenance

The instrument this review was written with.

Artifact versionartifact.v12
Resolution baseCaptured
Captured2026-09-14T08:22:23.955Z
Page setcs-8a31c638-3be9-4b61-9264-fe6ac636ae94
Instrumentcopy-informe.v1 · spine seis-secciones.v1 · surface superficie.v1
Field definitioncenso-de-formularios.v1 · we do not count: hidden, submit, button, reset, image and the anti-spam tokens · the fields marked aria-hidden · the search fields: they do not ask for details about the person; they are a navigation control · the fields that appear while typing or in later steps: they are not guessed
Selection rulenot recorded

These versions identify the instrument, not the exact wording: the same version can cover later wording corrections.

Requested addresshttps://paddle.com
Final addresshttps://www.paddle.com/
ReadingRead on September 14, 2026. Sites change.

Examples made on public home pages. They imply no commercial relationship, engagement, validation or approval on the part of the brands analyzed.

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