Accessibility

The target

WCAG 2.1 level AA. Not a claim of certification — a statement of what the site is built and reviewed against.

What is in place

• Keyboard operation throughout. Every tool, game and menu works without a mouse. A skip link jumps past the navigation, and focus is visible on every interactive element.
• Results are announced. Search results, game outcomes and error messages are written to a polite live region, so a screen reader user is told what happened rather than having to hunt for it.
• Contrast. Text meets AA contrast ratios in both light and dark themes. Colour is never the only way information is conveyed — Wordle-style tiles carry a text label as well as a colour.
• Semantic structure. One h1 per page, headings in order, real landmarks, labelled form controls, and tables with proper headers.
• Reduced motion. Animations are disabled when your system asks for reduced motion.
• Zoom and reflow. The layout works at 200% zoom and down to a 320px viewport without horizontal scrolling. Wide content — grids, tables — scrolls inside its own container rather than pushing the page.
• No time limits on any tool, and no motion or flashing that could trigger seizures.

Known difficulties

Stated because a list of only successes is not useful to anyone:

• The word search grid is a table of single letters. It is readable cell by cell, but a screen reader user cannot perceive a diagonal the way a sighted user does. The solver reports every word's row, column and direction as text, which is the accessible route through the same puzzle.
• Letter Drop is a timed arcade game and is difficult to play with a screen reader. The pause button stops the clock indefinitely. The other three games have no time pressure at all.
• Very long result lists — a broad search can return thousands of words. They are grouped by length with headings, but navigating one entirely by keyboard is slow. Using the length and pattern filters is much faster than scrolling.
• The letter-frequency chart conveys its shape visually. Every bar is accompanied by its count and percentage as text, so no information is available only in the graphic.

Things that help

• Dark mode follows your system setting and can be overridden with the toggle in the header.
• The site works without JavaScript for reading — all written content, word lists and navigation. The interactive tools do require it.
• Text resizes. Everything is in relative units, so your browser's font size setting is respected.

Telling us about a problem

Accessibility reports are treated as bugs, not feature requests. Email [email protected] with:

• The page you were on.
• What you were trying to do.
• What assistive technology and browser you were using.
• Where it broke down.

If a specific tool is unusable for you and there is something you needed from it, say so — we would rather find you the answer directly while the underlying problem gets fixed.