The house should be usable by everyone who comes in.

In place

• Every room and control can be reached and used with a keyboard alone.
• Focus is always visible, with a solid ember outline that does not rely on colour alone.
• Text meets WCAG AA contrast against its background in both the light rooms and the night rooms.
• Reduced motion is honoured. If your device asks for less motion, the flame stops breathing, the rain stops falling and transitions collapse to nothing.
• Nothing flashes, pulses or strobes. Only the fire and the breath move, and both can be stopped.
• Every scene has a written description, and every image carries a text alternative.
• Text can be enlarged to 200% without the layout breaking or content being lost.
• The interface uses real headings, real labels and real buttons rather than styled divs.

Sound

Nothing plays until you ask for it. Sound is offered, never automatic, and every texture is described in words as well as heard. There are no spoken captions because there is no speech in the rooms — only generated textures, which are labelled at source.

Still to do

• Hand-testing each room with two screen readers, and publishing the results.
• A high-contrast variant of the night rooms for very low vision.
• Written transcripts for the text of the three authored voices.

Tell us

If something in the house is hard or impossible to use, write to us through the contact page and say which room and which page. It gets fixed, and the fix is described here rather than hidden.