Accessibility
Last updated 25 August 2026
We want RecordSeason.com to be usable by as many people as possible. This page is an honest account rather than a claim of conformance: here is what the site does, what it does not do yet, and how to tell us when we have got it wrong.
What the site does
Real controls. Every button in the game is an actual button element, not a styled div. That means it can be reached with the Tab key, pressed with Enter or Space, and announced properly by a screen reader, without us having to reinvent any of it.
Colour is never the only signal. A trait a man is already filed under is marked with a border and a label as well as a colour. Slots that are taken say Filled. Nothing in the game asks you to tell two colours apart in order to play it.
Contrast. The palette is dark by design. Measured against the page background, body text is 13.3:1, the muted text used for descriptions is 7.7:1, and the green is 6.8:1 — all comfortably past the 4.5:1 that WCAG AA asks for. The one exception is the dimmest grey, used for disabled labels and small tags, which measures 4.2:1 and meets AA only at large sizes. We are aware of it.
Reduced motion. If your system is set to reduce motion, the flourishes stop — the card that flashes when the reel lands, for instance, simply appears instead.
Sound is optional and off-switchable. There is a mute control in the header, it works before you play a single spin, and your choice is remembered. Nothing in the game requires hearing: every sound duplicates something already on the screen.
Text scales. The pages outside the game respond to your browser's text size and window width.
What it does not do yet
We would rather list these than pretend they are solved.
- The reel is motion, and it is the game. Reduced-motion settings quiet the flourishes but the reel still turns, because a slot machine that does not move is not a slot machine. If that is a problem for you, please write to us — a no-animation mode that deals the card directly is a solvable thing and we would like to know it is wanted.
- The game is built at a fixed size and scaled. It is designed as a phone-shaped frame and enlarged to fit your screen, so browser zoom behaves differently inside the game than on a normal page. Zooming the whole window works; zooming text alone does less than you would expect.
- Screen reader support is basic. Controls are labelled and reachable, but the game has not been tested end to end with a screen reader, and results are announced as ordinary text rather than through live regions. We are not claiming it is a good experience.
- No formal audit. Nobody independent has assessed this site. The measurements above are ours.
Tell us
If something here does not work for you, we would genuinely like to hear about it — including the things listed above, because knowing someone is actually blocked moves a thing up the list.
Write to hello@state908games.com. Please say what you were trying to do, what happened, and what you were using. We read everything that arrives.