Accessibility

Accessibility on this site

Last updated August 18, 2026

Our games are made to be played by everyone at the table — a five-year-old who can’t read yet, a grandparent who’d rather not squint at small type. We build the website the same way. This page says plainly what we’ve done, and what we haven’t done yet.

What works today

• Keyboard. Every link, button, menu and form control can be reached and used with a keyboard alone, and each one shows a visible focus ring. The online spinner is included: press Tab to reach the wheel or the deck, then Enter or Space to spin or draw.
• Screen readers. Each page has one main heading and a skip link to jump past the navigation. The spinner announces its result and the number of cards left. Photographs carry descriptions of what is actually in them.
• Reading. Body text is set in Atkinson Hyperlegible, a typeface designed by the Braille Institute for low-vision readers — it is why the zeros are slashed. It is the face this site downloads and the one nearly everyone sees. We check every text and background pair on the site against the 4.5:1 contrast minimum, at both phone and desktop widths, and we list anything that falls short below.
• Motion. If your device is set to reduce motion, the spinner lands on its result without the four-second spin, and the site’s animations are switched off.
• Video. Nothing plays until you ask it to. Videos load only when you tap them, so no sound or movement starts on its own.
• Zoom. Pages are built to hold together when text is enlarged, rather than assuming a fixed size.

What doesn’t work yet

We would rather tell you than let you find out:

• Contrast is measured, not assumed. Every text and background pair is checked against 4.5:1 at 390 and 1440 pixels wide. Decorative artwork, logos and the game’s own illustrations are not held to that bar, because the standard exempts them — the words are what we hold to it. If you find a pair that reads badly, tell us and we will treat it as a fault.
• The playing cards and the spinner wheel are artwork. A screen reader is told the result of a spin and how many cards remain, but the individual card faces and the wheel itself aren’t described.
• Our videos don’t have proper captions. YouTube’s automatic captions exist but they’re machine-written and often wrong, so they’re off by default. Real captions need to be added to the videos themselves, and that’s on our list.
• The online spinner is a companion, not the game. It replaces the spinner and the paw cards. The board itself is physical.

Tell us if something doesn’t work

If any part of this site gets in your way, please email hourtimegames@gmail.com and tell us what happened and what you were using. We’ll fix what we can and say so here when we have.

If you’ve lost a spinner or a set of paw cards from your box, the online spinner & cards fill in, and we’re happy to replace lost pieces.