Accessibility

Everyone should be able to get in

Last updated 13 October 2026.

This statement covers the website haldenthecordon.com, made by TPMT Games. It does not cover the game itself.

We aim for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. The site partly meets that standard. Most of the page can be read and used with a keyboard and a screen reader, but a few of its interactive pieces are built for a mouse, and those are listed below with what to do instead.

What works

  • The menu. On narrow screens the page links sit behind a menu button, a plain disclosure: Enter or Space opens it, Tab moves through the links, and Escape closes it. On wide screens the same links are in the bar.
  • Keyboard. Every link, button, tab and menu can be reached with Tab and used with Enter or Space, and a "Skip to content" link appears on the first Tab. Focus is shown with an orange outline.
  • On the home page and on the Halden and Armoury pages, these all work from the keyboard:
    • Halden Radio: the dial is a slider; the arrow keys move between stations and Shift with an arrow fine-tunes. The volume, power, band and sound keys are ordinary controls.
    • The character card: choose a job with the arrow keys.
    • What you carry: Tab to a piece and press Enter.
    • The screenshot viewer: Escape closes it, the arrow keys move between pictures, and focus goes back where it was.
    • The questions, the infected, the noise ruler and the seasons: ordinary buttons and pull-down answers.
  • On the roadmap, Tab into the road; the arrow keys follow it, and Enter or Space opens a stop.
  • Screen readers. The page is in English and marked as such, every page has a title and one main heading, screenshots and pictures that carry meaning have text descriptions, and decoration is hidden from screen readers. Buttons that switch something on or off say whether they are on. The radio, the city map card and the character card announce what changed.
  • Less motion. If your device is set to reduce motion, the scroll-driven story becomes a plain page, the falling ash, the scrolling street, the torch's wandering, the radio static and the counters stop, and the city map is shown fully lit.
  • No sound on its own. Nothing plays until you press play: the trailer and the radio start only when you start them, and starting one stops the other. The trailer never plays automatically.
  • No flashing. Nothing on the site flashes more than three times a second.
  • Your account. Every field on the account page has a label, the browser can fill in your username and password, and a problem is read out when it appears.
  • Text you can read. The site's text colours meet the contrast the standard asks for against the page behind them, small print included. A few handwritten notes drawn over pictures may be harder to read; they are decoration (below).

What does not work yet

  • The dark street ("The sick hunt by sound", on the Halden page) is a small game played with a mouse: you aim the torch with the pointer and click to throw. It cannot be played with a keyboard or a screen reader. Nothing in it is needed to understand the game; the text above it says what it shows, and the seasons can be changed with the buttons below it.
  • The city map ("Halden, by torchlight", on the Halden page): the torch follows a mouse pointer. With a keyboard, Tab to the map: plus and minus zoom in and out, the arrow keys move it and 0 fits it again, and "Turn the lights on" shows the whole map at once. The card beside it names the district under the torch, so a keyboard or screen reader user hears only the district in the middle of the view; the same districts are named elsewhere on the page and in the questions.
  • The handwritten notes on the map, the photographs and the notices are decoration and are hidden from screen readers. A few of them say things that are not written anywhere else on the page.
  • Banners. The wide picture banners carry their headline as part of the picture. The same words are the section’s real heading, which screen readers read; on narrow screens the picture steps aside and the heading shows as text.
  • Animated loops. The short loops on the site are pictures that move. With motion reduced they show a still frame instead.
  • The trailer has no captions and no audio description yet.
  • Text cannot be highlighted or copied on this site, by design: the page is built to look like things found in the city, and highlighting breaks that. What you type into a form can still be selected. The press page has Copy buttons for its descriptions, and we will send any text from the site on request.
  • Phones are shown a short page instead of the home page and the Halden page, because they need a mouse and a large screen. The other pages (Armoury, Roads, Together, Roadmap, Workshop, Press) work on a phone. Open haldenthecordon.com on a computer to see all of it.
  • Account errors are read out, but are not yet linked to the field they are about.

We are working through this list. If one of these stops you doing something, tell us and it moves up.

Tell us

If something on this site does not work for you, or you need anything on it in another form, write to ThePostModernTruth@gmail.com. Say which page and what happened, and what you use to browse (for example a screen reader or zoom) if you like. We read every message.

How we checked

We checked the site ourselves: the code against the standard, the keyboard and focus order, the contrast of the text colours, and how the pages behave with motion reduced. It has not been audited by an outside expert. The site is plain HTML and CSS with JavaScript for the interactive parts; it works in current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.

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