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Accessibility

Working The Margins aims to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA, on this site and in the game. It doesn’t meet them everywhere yet. Here’s what works today and what doesn’t.

What works

  • Keyboard. Every screen works without a mouse, with a visible focus ring. Each state on the map is a button you can reach by keyboard, and the small states have buttons of their own. Keyboard shortcuts can be changed in Settings, Keys, and single-key shortcuts can be turned off there, so they never clash with a screen reader’s own keys.
  • Screen readers. Each state on the map says its name, electoral votes and who leads there, and the vote bars and results say what they show.
  • Color. The map’s colors can be changed in Settings, Colors, which also has palettes for color blindness and for high contrast. In Windows high contrast mode the game keeps the party colors that show who leads, and puts everything else in your theme’s colors.
  • Text size. In the desktop app, Settings, Game has a Text size up to 200%, and Ctrl and plus or minus change it anywhere. In a browser, the browser’s own zoom does the same.
  • Motion and sound. The game follows your system’s reduced motion setting. Music and sound effects have their own volumes, and one key mutes both. Election Night’s count can be paused, slowed or stepped through one update at a time.

What doesn’t work yet

  • On the campaign map, each state’s initials and electoral votes are drawn to the map’s own scale, so they can be as small as 10 pixels; zooming the map enlarges them. Other text is at least 12 pixels on a laptop-sized screen or larger, but not on a phone. The desktop app’s Text size and a browser’s zoom enlarge it all.
  • On the map, how far a state leads (tilt, lean, likely or safe) is shown by how light or dark its color is. Each state’s spoken name and its panel say it in words.
  • The game can’t be played with a game controller yet.
  • There is no contact yet for reporting an accessibility problem or asking for an adjustment.

Last reviewed October 19, 2026.