Accessibility

Overleveling builds for people who play games. That audience includes people who navigate entirely by keyboard, people using screen readers, people who need larger text or higher contrast, and people for whom movement on screen causes real discomfort.

We treat accessibility as a build requirement rather than a later pass. It is one of the standards every property in the network is held to, and it is part of what “shared standards” means in practice.

This website is built to target Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA.

We describe that as a target rather than a certified conformance claim. No third-party audit has been carried out on this site, and stating conformance we have not independently verified would be exactly the kind of unsupported claim the rest of this network is built to avoid.

Specifically, on this site:

• A skip link is the first focusable element on every page, and semantic landmarks and a single logical heading order are used throughout.
• Everything interactive is keyboard operable — navigation, the mobile menu, the network filters and the contact form.
• The mobile menu is a native dialog, so focus is trapped while it is open, Escape closes it, and focus returns to the button that opened it.
• Focus is always visible, with a high-contrast outline that works on both the dark surfaces and the accent-coloured buttons.
• Text and interface colours are chosen to meet WCAG AA contrast on the dark palette.
• No information is conveyed by colour alone. Statuses, form errors and the current navigation item all carry a text or shape cue as well.
• Every animation on the site is decorative and is removed entirely when your system requests reduced motion. Nothing is revealed by an animation, so nothing disappears when they stop.
• Decorative graphics are hidden from assistive technology rather than given invented descriptions; informative ones are described.
• Form fields have real labels, errors are announced and linked to the field, and touch targets are at least 44×44 pixels.
• There is no autoplaying audio or video, and no content that moves on its own without a way to stop it.

Automated accessibility checks run against every route as part of our verification suite, and keyboard navigation is verified manually across desktop and mobile layouts.

Automated tooling catches a meaningful share of issues but not most of them. It cannot tell whether an alternative description is actually useful, whether a reading order makes sense, or whether a page is workable with a screen reader in real use.

Stated plainly, because a statement with no limitations section is rarely credible:

• No independent audit. This site has not been reviewed by an external accessibility auditor, and no formal conformance evaluation has been published.
• No structured assistive-technology test matrix. We have not yet completed and documented testing across a defined set of screen reader and browser combinations.
• The network sites are separate. This statement covers overleveling.com only. Each network property is its own website and may differ; contact that site directly about a barrier there.

These are gaps we intend to close rather than positions we are defending.

If something on this site blocked you or was harder to use than it should have been, please tell us. A specific report — the page, what you were trying to do, and the browser or assistive technology you were using — helps most, but any report is welcome.

Get in touch via the contact form, selecting “General inquiries”.

If the contact form itself is the barrier, that is important for us to know and we will find another route — say so through any channel that works for you.