Accessibility Statement

We are aiming at WCAG 2.2 AA for this site, the invitation pages and your account. The invitation page especially: it is used by hundreds of people who never chose us, on whatever device they happen to have.

What we have built in

• Player identity is never colour alone. Every station carries its numeral, on the screen, on the sticker and in the leaderboard — so the four player colours are distinguishable under deuteranopia and protanopia. This one is not switchable off.
• Reduced-flashing mode genuinely removes or dampens flashing effects rather than warning you about them. Games that flash declare it, and you can see which on each game’s page.
• One-button playability. Every game in the catalog is playable with the stick and one big button. Nothing needs a combination or fast, precise input to take part.
• Difficulty profiles. Speed, target size and timing windows adjust per game, and per station where a game allows it, so a five-year-old and a ten-year-old can play the same round.
• Keyboard paths, visible focus, real form labels and text alternatives across the site.
• Reduced-motion preferences are respected — animation stops when your system asks it to.

Known limitations

• The console is a game running on a TV. It gets a best-effort standard rather than a full conformance claim, and we say so rather than implying otherwise.
• Audio cues have visual equivalents, but a small number of games lean on sound for timing. We are working through those.
• The arcade stations are a physical product with physical controls. They need hand and arm movement, and we have no adaptive-controller support yet. If that is what you need, write to us — Bashcade Lite may work better, and we would rather help you than sell you the box.

Tell us what is broken

help@bashcade.com, subject line “accessibility”. A real person reads it, we will tell you what we can fix and when, and we will give you a way through in the meantime. If something on this site blocks you today, say so and we will book your party by hand.