Accessibility

Standard we aim for

We target Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA. That is the benchmark courts use in accessibility cases and the one most tooling is built around.

Where we are

Partially conformant. We have reviewed the site against WCAG 2.1 AA and fixed what that review found, but we have not had an independent audit and we are not claiming full conformance.

What is in place:

• A skip link to bypass the header on every page.
• A visible keyboard focus indicator throughout, on both light and dark surfaces.
• Labelled form fields, with errors announced to assistive technology.
• The upload dialog uses a native dialog, so focus stays inside it and Escape closes it.
• The navigation, search, and account panels are modal dialogs: focus stays inside them, Escape closes them, and the button that opened one reports whether it is open.
• Signing in and joining work by keyboard alone and without JavaScript. The age question is a labelled group of radio buttons, and anything that goes wrong comes back on the page itself, marked up so a screen reader announces it rather than leaving it to be noticed.
• The account and onboarding forms label every field, say plainly which answers are optional, and report errors the same way.
• Rankings and standings tables have proper column headers, captions, and expansions for abbreviations like GF and GD.
• Automatic captions on video clips, shown by default.
• Text alternatives on images that carry meaning.

What we know is still short:

• Automatic captions are accurate but not perfect, particularly with crowd noise. We correct them on request.
• We have not yet added audio descriptions for video, and some clips carry information visually that is not described in text.
• Some older story images may have unhelpful alternative text.
• The site has not been tested against every screen reader and browser combination.

Tell us about a barrier

If something here does not work for you, please email insidetheninety@gmail.com with “Accessibility” in the subject. Tell us the page, what you were trying to do, and what you use to browse if you are happy to.

We will acknowledge within 5 business days and tell you what we can fix and when. If a fix will take time, we will offer the information another way in the meantime.

Assessment approach

Self-evaluation, using a combination of automated checks, keyboard-only testing, and manual review of the pages people actually use: the front page, rankings, standings, stories, video, the upload flow, search, and the whole of signing in, which means the sign-in and join page, the questions asked after joining, and the account page.