Accessibility
Accessibility Statement
FrankenSketch is improving accessibility with WCAG 2.2 Level AA as its goal. This page describes available features, remaining limits and how to report a barrier.
1. Sound and motion
- You can play without sound. The sound button at the top lets you mute or adjust music and effects separately, including on mobile. Settings are saved in this browser.
- Reduced motion is supported. Turn on your device's reduced-motion setting to stop automatic home slides, screen-change fades, the timer blink in the last few seconds, waiting spinners, heart/stone particles and vibration, and to simplify drawing reveals.
- Some devices (mostly Android) vibrate briefly. This happens only when you press submit yourself, confirm a guess or get a quick match, and not when reduced motion is on, sound effects are off or the sound effects volume is zero.
- Home slides advance every five seconds. Choosing one with the arrows, page dots, arrow keys or a swipe stops automatic advances until you reopen the page. Hovering over the slides, moving keyboard focus inside them or hiding the page also pauses them.
2. Keyboard and status updates
Main buttons, inputs and tabs support keyboard operation and show the focused control. Screen changes and connection/submission updates provide information for assistive technology. The game offers ten languages; how updates are read depends on your browser and assistive technology.
Keyboard focus stays inside an open dialog and returns to the previous control when it closes. Escape closes dialogs, though this may be temporarily blocked while an operation is in progress.
Short notices and first-visit tips disappear on their own after a few seconds (about 1–5 seconds) and cannot be reopened. Screen readers read them when they appear.
- Artist: 1 and 2 select pen width, Q selects fill, W selects the eraser, E or Ctrl/Cmd+Z undoes, and A, S and D select the line, rectangle and circle.
- Guesser's doodle board: E or Ctrl/Cmd+Z undoes.
Canvas shortcuts are inactive during text entry and while a dialog or rotation notice is open. Single-key shortcuts cannot be turned off or remapped, so input methods such as voice control can cause unintended actions.
3. Drawing and small-screen limits
- Drawing, dragging out a line, rectangle or circle, choosing a fill location and enlarging a Normal result piece require a mouse, finger or stylus. You can submit an empty piece without drawing.
- Artists' names, prompts and guesses appear as text, but pictures and doodles have no description of their contents. Text in a saved PNG is also part of the image.
- Before the mobile portrait layout takes over, the whole game scales together, so text and buttons get smaller too. The mobile portrait layout also scales as a whole from a 390px logical width, so on phones narrower than 390px the 44-pixel standard buttons look smaller (about 36 pixels on a 320px-wide screen) and color buttons are narrower still.
- On short landscape phone screens, a notice asks you to rotate to portrait. The timer keeps running while it is shown.
- The game is a fixed single screen without page scrolling. Only dialogs and lists scroll inside, and browser or pinch zoom re-fits the screen instead of making text and buttons noticeably larger.
- In forced-colors (high contrast) mode, selected tools, colors and options and focused text fields show a system highlight outline. Drawings, result images and color swatches keep their original colors.
4. Time settings
In the lobby, the host chooses a drawing-time preset from 5 to 90 seconds. It applies to each piece in Normal or the full drawing in Crop. The host can choose 10, 15, or 20 seconds for the guess.
When the guess time ends, a valid answer already in the input is submitted automatically. If no answer is submitted, the round records a timeout and does not count as a correct answer.
There is no pause or individual time extension during a round. Ask the host for longer times before starting if needed. Playing without a guesser skips the timed answer-entry step.
5. Report a barrier
Tell us your device, browser and assistive technology, and which screen and action blocked you.
- Email: support.frankensketch@gmail.com
- Discord: discord.gg/S9fq8ZJdd2
This statement is based on code review, automated checks and Chromium browser checks. This review did not include Safari, Firefox, physical mobile devices or screen-reader use. Full WCAG 2.2 Level AA conformance has not been established.
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