Accessibility Statement
"Beyond the Rules" is built to be usable with a keyboard alone, with a screen reader, with enlarged text and with high-contrast colours. Here is the full picture, including what is not there yet.
Level of accessibility
The site is built to WCAG 2.1 level AA, the basis of the Israeli standard ת"י 5568. It is checked both by hand and with automated tools, and re-checked whenever something significant changes.
What has been done
- Full keyboard navigation, including the chess board itself: arrow keys move focus between squares and Enter selects.
- Every square is announced by a screen reader with its name and the piece on it, for example "e4, white knight".
- A clear focus indicator on every control, and no keyboard traps.
- Colour contrast of at least 4.5:1 for normal text, in both the light and the dark theme.
- The operating system reduce-motion setting is respected: when it is on, no animation or celebration runs at all.
- Sound and celebrations can be switched off, and animation speed and board colours changed, in the settings menu.
- Text can be enlarged to 200% without losing content, and the layout works down to 320 pixels wide.
- Language and direction are declared in the markup (Hebrew right to left, English left to right).
What is not accessible yet
- The course is visual by nature: understanding a chess position means seeing the board or reading it square by square with a screen reader. There is no automatic description of a whole position yet.
- There is no audio version of the lessons.
We keep improving, and a report about an accessibility barrier is treated here as a fault like any other.
Hit a barrier?
Write to noambbb@gmail.com and tell us what you were trying to do, on which page, and with which assistive technology. We aim to reply within seven business days and to fix what can be fixed.
Accessibility contact
Noam Brand, noambbb@gmail.com. He operates the course, of 26 HaRav Aberbuch St, Ramat Hasharon 4740020, Israel.