Accessibility

Standard and status

Wheel Cue aims to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA. It does not claim full conformance yet: the known gaps are listed below.

This statement was last reviewed on October 8, 2026. It is a self-assessment by the person who builds the site, not a third-party audit.

How it was checked. The page code and the published pages were reviewed against the WCAG 2.2 Level AA success criteria, including keyboard use of the main controls, the contrast ratios of the text colors in both themes, reflow at a width of 320 pixels and behavior with reduced motion turned on. The site has not yet been tested systematically with each major screen reader.

What works today

Keyboard. Every control is reachable by keyboard, and a skip link leads past the menu to the main content. The spacebar spins the wheel from anywhere on the page except inside a text field. Dialogs take focus when they open, keep Tab inside them while they are open, close with Escape and put focus back where it was when they close.

Screen readers. The wheel is a canvas, which a screen reader cannot describe, so the important information is provided as text alongside it: the entry count and current odds are in a live region under the wheel, and when a spin ends the result window announces the winner. The written content on every page is ordinary HTML, and the research charts carry a text title.

Reduced motion. If your system is set to reduce motion, the ambient background stops animating, confetti is suppressed, and the spin is shortened to a single fast turn rather than five. The result is identical either way.

Contrast and themes. Text in both the light and dark themes, including the small secondary text and the green labels, meets the WCAG AA contrast ratio: 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text. The theme follows the button in the header and is remembered on that device. Wheel labels are dark text on light slices in both themes.

Zoom and reflow. The layout reflows to 320px and supports zoom to 200% without horizontal scrolling. Wide content scrolls inside its own container rather than pushing the page sideways.

No motion traps. Nothing auto-plays and nothing flashes. Sound never plays until you spin, and it can be turned off entirely in the wheel options.

Known gaps

Listing these is more useful than claiming full compliance:

• The wheel is visual. A screen reader user gets the result as text, but not the experience of watching the wheel. For a blind user the spin animation is dead time; the result is what matters, and it is announced.
• Colour is used to distinguish slices. The labels carry the meaning, but the colour picker is inherently visual and there is no non-visual equivalent.
• No high-contrast theme beyond the standard light and dark ones.
• Screen reader testing is limited. The result announcement and the dialogs follow the standard patterns, but they have not yet been tested with every major screen reader and browser combination.
• The fullscreen presentation mode has had less testing with assistive technology than the standard layout.
• Other services' windows are outside our control. When you send a wheel through Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams or another app, their share windows follow their own accessibility.

None of these are settled. If you hit a barrier, the specific detail is far more useful than a general report.

Report a problem

Email hello@wheelcue.com with the page, your assistive technology and browser, and what happened.

Accessibility bugs are treated as bugs, not as feature requests.