Accessibility Statement

1. Our WCAG 2.2 Level AA Commitment

ChalkChorus (chalkchorus.com), operated by [Operator legal name], is committed to making our independent UK browser game guide accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of assistive technology, input device, or sensory preference. We design, build, and audit every page of this site to conform with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA.

Whether you are comparing solo music puzzles on Stage & Slate, checking multiplayer room safety on our Parents & Carers page, or reading game facts on the Amphitheatre home page, every article is structured as clean semantic HTML that works across desktop and mobile browsers, screen readers, screen magnifiers, and switch or keyboard navigation.

2. Hero Video Controls & Reduced-Motion Behaviour

The opening stage of the Amphitheatre features an animated loop of Maestro Calcor Vane and Chora Scribe performing on the Resonant Downs. Because unexpected audio or unpausable movement can disrupt screen readers and trigger vestibular discomfort, our media and motion architecture follows three strict rules:

• Always silent: The hero video contains no audio track and is muted at the element level, ensuring it never clashes with screen-reader speech synthesis or your own headphones.
• Keyboard-accessible Pause / Play button: A dedicated control button sits in the bottom-right corner of the hero frame. It can be focused and activated by keyboard, mouse, or touch at any moment to pause or resume playback, updating its accessible label accordingly.
• Automatic prefers-reduced-motion support: If your operating system or browser is set to reduce motion (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce), the video is not played; the stage immediately displays the calm, full-brightness painted still image instead, and scroll-reveal transitions across the entire site complete instantaneously without sliding or fading.

3. Colour Contrast on Dover Chalk & Welsh Slate

Our visual world pairs sunlit Dover Chalk limestone with honed Welsh blue-slate and electric artist pastels. To make sure vibrant artwork never compromises reading comfort, we separate decorative backgrounds from reading surfaces:

All typography is set in self-hosted Darker Grotesque for headings and Catamaran for body copy, with a strict minimum font size of 12px (0.75rem) for compact facts strips and statutory disclosures, scaling fluidly up to 200% browser zoom without horizontal scrolling or clipped text.

4. Keyboard Navigation, Touch Targets & Semantics

We test every template on ChalkChorus for smooth operation without a mouse and across narrow mobile viewports down to 320px wide:

• Skip to main content: Pressing Tab on any page reveals a high-contrast skip link in the top-left corner that jumps focus directly to <main id="main">, bypassing the floating navigation bar.
• Visible focus indicators: Every interactive element—links, navigation toggles, hero controls, and expandable <details> facts blocks—displays a prominent 3px solid Electric Chorus Magenta (#F43F85) outline with a 3px offset when focused via keyboard.
• Target size compliance (WCAG 2.2 SC 2.5.8): Every link, pill button, summary toggle, and footer item maintains an interactive hit area of at least 24×24 CSS pixels, with primary call-to-action buttons standing at 42px to 46px tall.
• Alternative text & decorative cut-outs: Every game cover and editorial scene carries a descriptive alt attribute detailing the composition. Purely atmospheric textures, pastel dust swirls, and character sticker cut-outs carry empty alt="" attributes so screen readers are never burdened with redundant noise.
• Resilience without JavaScript: If JavaScript fails to load or is disabled in your browser, all text, game facts blocks (via native HTML <details> and <summary> elements), navigation links, and high-resolution still images remain completely visible and usable.

5. Third-Party Browser Games Linked from This Guide

ChalkChorus is an independent editorial guide; we do not host embedded games on our domain. When you activate an official game button (for example, to visit Incredibox, Bandle, SongTrivia, Songless, Spotle, Gartic Phone, skribbl.io, Gartic.io, JKLM.fun (BombParty, PopSauce), or StopotS), you leave chalkchorus.com and travel to that publisher's official website.

While we cannot control the code or accessibility conformance of external websites, we help you prepare before you click: every game's standalone facts block states its core mechanics—such as whether a trial relies on 0.1-second audio snippets, isolated instrument stems, live canvas drawing, or timed typing—and each official link includes a screen-reader note indicating that it opens an external site in a new tab.