Accessibility

We want everyone to be able to meet Pip & Dot: on a phone or a computer, with a mouse, a keyboard or a screen reader, with or without motion and sound. We build this site to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA, check it with automated tests and by keyboard, and fix what people tell us.

The Accessibility panel

The round button with a little person on it, at the top of every page, opens it. This browser remembers what you pick.

• Less motion: nothing slides, bounces or wobbles, and the moving pictures (the stickers, Pip & Dot’s lines) hold still. It’s on already if your device asks for less motion.
• Stronger contrast: darker words, solid lines and underlined links. It’s on already if your device asks for more contrast.
• Easier-to-read letters: every word in Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, a typeface the Braille Institute made for low vision.
• Pip & Dot on the page: the two cats who walk along the bottom of the screen and talk. Switch them off if they get in your way.
• Sounds: their little purrs and boings, only ever when you tap something.
• Midnight: a dark page around the panels, easier on the eyes at night.
• Read the page to me: your browser’s own voice reads the page aloud, top to bottom, and marks each part as it goes. Pause it, go on, stop, or slow it down. Nothing you hear is sent anywhere.

Built into every page

• A Skip to the content link is the first thing the Tab key reaches.
• Everything works with a keyboard, with a clear ring round wherever you are. The row of newest reels scrolls to the card you Tab to, and the links at the top take the keyboard to the part they jump to.
• Every picture has words for screen readers. The highlighter marks and little doodles are hidden from them, and numbers that count up are read as they really are.
• The contact form names every blank, says what’s missing right beside it, tells you how many characters are left as you near the end, and says when your message is sent.
• Links that open a new tab say so.
• The page follows your browser’s zoom and rearranges itself to fit, down to a screen 320 pixels wide (a computer at 400%).
• Windows’ contrast themes choose every colour, and nothing on the page fights them.
• No sound ever plays on its own, and nothing flashes.

What isn’t perfect yet

• The reels themselves play on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook, in those apps’ players. The words in them are drawn into the picture, so a screen reader can’t read them there.
• Pip & Dot’s speech bubbles are for fun and aren’t read out, so they never interrupt a screen reader.

Tell us

If something here doesn’t work for you, write to hello@diceytogether.app, or send the letter at the bottom of the home page. Tell us what you were trying to do and what you use (a phone, a screen reader, a keyboard, zoom), and we’ll fix it. We answer every message.