Accessibility Statement

Our target

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA. That is the standard referenced by the Americans with Disabilities Act in practice, by Section 508, by the European Accessibility Act and by the UK Equality Act.

We describe this site as partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 Level AA: most of the site meets the standard, and the known gaps are listed below rather than hidden.

What we have done

• Motion can be switched off. This site has some deliberately silly retro animation — scrolling marquees, blinking badges, a drifting waveform background and a rolling VHS tracking bar. All of it stops if your operating system requests reduced motion, and there is a Pause motion button at the bottom of every page for anyone who has not set that. This addresses WCAG 2.2.2 (Pause, Stop, Hide) and 2.3.3 (Animation from Interactions).
• Nothing flashes. No content on this site flashes more than three times per second, so it does not present a known seizure risk under WCAG 2.3.1.
• No audio plays automatically. The retro music player in '98 mode is switched off by default, never starts on its own, and has an explicit stop control and a volume slider (WCAG 1.4.2).
• Keyboard access. Every link, button and control can be reached and operated with the keyboard alone, in a logical order, with a clearly visible focus indicator that meets the contrast requirement in both colourways. A “Skip to content” link is the first thing you reach with the Tab key.
• Colour contrast. Text and interface colours were checked against the 4.5:1 (normal text) and 3:1 (large text and controls) thresholds in both colourways — including the orange navigation buttons, whose label colour and background lightness were chosen to clear the large-text threshold rather than eyeballed.
• Structure and labelling. Pages use real headings in a logical order, landmark regions, descriptive link text, and text alternatives for meaningful images. Purely decorative graphics and emoji are hidden from screen readers so they do not clutter the reading experience.
• Links that open a new tab say so to screen reader users rather than opening unexpectedly and silently.
• Zoom and reflow. The layout reflows down to a 320 px viewport and remains usable at 200% zoom without horizontal scrolling.
• Colour is never the only signal. Information conveyed with colour is also conveyed with text or shape.

Known limitations

We would rather tell you about these than have you discover them:

• The '98 colourway is decorative by nature. It applies period-accurate visual noise, a tiled background and blinking badges over the whole page. We have kept text contrast within the thresholds and the blinking within the flash limit, but if you find it harder to read, Classic mode is a clean, high-contrast, low-noise layout and is always one click away using the theme button at the bottom of the page. Your choice is remembered.
• The retro music player's spectrum analyser is purely decorative and conveys no information; it is hidden from assistive technology.
• We link to a large number of third-party sites, videos and tools that we have no affiliation with and no control over. Some of them will not meet this standard, and video content on other platforms may lack accurate captions or transcripts. If a linked resource is inaccessible to you, telling us still helps: we can note it on the listing, look for an accessible alternative, or drop the link.
• Section headings are artwork in Classic mode. Several headings are hand-lettered images rather than live text, so they do not reflow or restyle with your own fonts. Each one ships a real heading for screen readers and the document outline, and the '98 colourway renders every heading as ordinary text.
• The site has not yet been through a formal third-party accessibility audit, and our testing with real assistive technology has been limited. Automated and manual checks catch a lot, but they do not catch everything.

Tell us about a barrier

If something here is difficult or impossible for you to use, please tell us — it is genuinely the fastest way for it to get fixed. Email [email protected] describing what you were trying to do, which page you were on, and what got in the way. Mentioning your browser and any assistive technology you use helps us reproduce it, but do not worry if you would rather not.

We aim to acknowledge accessibility reports within five working days and to tell you what we intend to do about it. If we cannot fix something quickly, we will say so and offer the information another way. The same address handles resource suggestions, corrections and takedown requests — see submissions and takedowns.