Accessibility

Text contrast is computed against what actually paints on screen, including translucent text over the background. Two failures were found that way and fixed.

• Every control can be reached and used with a keyboard, and the focus outline is visible on all of them.
• Nothing is hidden behind the header when you tab to it or jump to it from a link.
• Pages reflow to a 320px screen with no sideways scrolling, and survive increased line, letter and word spacing without clipping.
• The gameplay clips are buttons. They play on hover or on keyboard focus, and Enter or Space stops them.
• Images carry descriptions, headings run in order, and each page has one first-level heading.
• The background moves on its own, the screenshot strip drifts, and on a phone the gameplay clips play as you scroll past them. TheReduce motion control in the footer stops all three. Your system setting is honoured too.

Partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 level AA. The gaps are listed below and we are working through them.

Testing was done with Chrome on Windows, using automated checks plus a keyboard-only pass over each page. It has not yet been through a screen reader end to end, or reviewed by disabled users.

This site is not covered by the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018. Those ask for WCAG 2.1 AA. We hold ourselves to WCAG 2.2 level AA anyway, and to our duty to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010.

• Trailer captions. The trailer plays from YouTube and we have not confirmed it carries captions or an audio description. Until we have, email us and we will describe what happens in it.
• Screen reader testing. Not yet done with NVDA, JAWS or VoiceOver.
• The counters on the About page. They count up when they scroll into view, and until they do a screen reader reads every one of them as nought. The numbers are on this page instead: two people, one game released, one in development.
• The screenshot viewer. Stepping through it with the arrow buttons swaps the picture without announcing that anything changed, so a screen reader user is not told which shot they are on.
• The clips have no captions. They carry no speech and no sound, and the paragraph beside each one describes what it shows. There is no separate text alternative attached to the clip itself.
• With JavaScript off. The background still moves and the Reduce motion control does not appear, so only your system setting will stop it.

If something here is hard to use, or you need anything on this site in another format, email us and say what you ran into. It helps to know the page and what you were using.

We aim to reply within five working days. If you're not happy with how we handle it, the Equality Advisory and Support Service can advise you.