PERIHELION BOWL BROADCAST // WCAG 2.2 LEVEL AA SPECIFICATION

Accessibility Statement

Every spectator and player stepping into the Perihelion Bowl should be able to read our courtside scouting reports, inspect verified game facts and follow links to each official site without barriers. HoopComet is engineered to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA across desktop monitors, tablets, phones and assistive technologies.

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WCAG 2.2 Level AA Target

Pages are built and audited against WCAG 2.2 Level AA success criteria, ensuring perceivable, operable, understandable and robust HTML across modern browsers.

High-Contrast Floodlit Type

Floodlight White and Courtside Ice text sit on dark wet-obsidian reading plaques, exceeding the 4.5:1 body contrast and 3:1 large-text contrast thresholds.

Ionized Cyan Focus Rings

Every interactive link, expandable facts drawer and button displays a 2.5px Ionized Cyan (#00E5FF) outline with a 3px offset when navigated via keyboard.

Silent & Pauseable Hero Video

The opening arena video carries no audio track, includes a keyboard-accessible Pause/Play toggle in the upper-right corner and halts automatically when requested.

Reduced-Motion Honouring

When your operating system or browser signals prefers-reduced-motion: reduce, the hero video is replaced by its high-resolution still and ambient floats stop.

No-JavaScript Resilience

All scouting copy, native HTML details/summary facts blocks, navigation bars and official game links work in full even if JavaScript is disabled or blocked.

1. Conformance Status & Scope

HoopComet (hoopcomet.com) is designed and maintained to conform with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.2 at Level AA. This commitment applies to our home broadcast arena, the Court Scouting comparison matrix, the Perihelion Bowl lore chronicle and all informational and legal pages hosted on our domain.

Because HoopComet is an independent guide that links out to third-party browser games hosted on their respective publishers' official websites, we do not control the code, canvas rendering or control remapping inside the external games themselves. To help you choose games that fit your setup before you leave our site, every game entry on HoopComet clearly states its control scheme (such as single-button input in Basket Random, mouse-and-swipe play in Ping Pong Go!, or keyboard arrows and WASD in Basket Bros) alongside our verified facts strip.

Visual Contrast & Stadium Typography

Our nocturnal Perihelion Bowl palette is calibrated so that vibrant stadium floodlights and painted court backdrops never compromise reading clarity:

Dedicated Reading Plaques: Every paragraph of scouting copy, game description, facts strip and legal disclosure sits inside a dark, high-opacity Wet Court Slate panel (#070B14 to #111728) rather than floating raw over busy illustration detail.
Verified Contrast Ratios: Primary chalk and white typography achieves a contrast ratio between 13.9:1 and 18.0:1 against our dark slate surfaces. Ionized Cyan accents (#00E5FF) achieve 9.8:1 to 12.8:1, and Muted Telemetry Slate (#B2BDD6) maintains 8.0:1 to 10.4:1—all comfortably above the WCAG AA 4.5:1 requirement for normal text.
Scalable Type & Zoom: All font sizes use fluid CSS clamp() and relative rem units, with our finest legal print strictly floored at 12px (0.75rem). Pages reflow cleanly up to 200% and 400% browser zoom down to a 320px viewport width without horizontal scrolling or clipped words.

Keyboard Navigation, Touch Targets & Screen Readers

Skip to Broadcast Link: Pressing Tab immediately upon loading any page reveals a high-contrast pill link in the top-left corner that jumps straight to #main, bypassing the header navigation bar.
Visible Focus Indicators: Every interactive control—including navigation links, the mobile menu toggle, the hero video pause button, expandable <details> facts drawers and official site CTAs—displays a clear 2.5px solid #00E5FF focus ring with a 3px offset.
Generous Target Sizing: In line with WCAG 2.2 Success Criterion 2.5.8 (Target Size Minimum), every interactive link and summary toggle meets or exceeds 24×24 CSS pixels, with primary courtside buttons standing at 42px to 44px tall.
Descriptive Alt Text & Semantic Landmarks: All character portraits, court scenes and custom game covers carry descriptive alternative text written in plain British English, while decorative light flares, corner brackets and background textures carry empty alt="" attributes so screen readers are never cluttered by visual ornament.

Motion, Video & Vestibular Safety

Silent Hero Loop with Manual Control: The looping alley-oop video on the opening screen is completely silent (muted with no audio track) so it never interferes with screen-reader speech synthesis. A dedicated Pause animation / Play animation button sits in the upper-right corner of the hero stage and can be triggered by mouse, touch or keyboard at any time.
Automatic Reduced-Motion Support: If you enable Reduce Motion or Remove Animations in Windows, macOS, iOS, Android or your browser settings (@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)), HoopComet automatically suppresses the background video in favour of its static high-resolution artwork, disables the zero-gravity character float animations and turns off scroll-driven transitions.