What's built in
- Full keyboard operation, including the interactive wordmark (focus it, then hold Space or Enter), the 404 channel dial, and a skip link on every page.
- Motion respects you twice: the site honors your system's reduced-motion setting everywhere, and the MOTION switch in the footer stills the decorative animations without touching any system setting.
- Sound is off until you turn it on, and everything audible has a visible equivalent.
- Text alternatives on all imagery, labels on every form control, headings in order, and color never used as the only signal — links in prose are underlined, states carry text.
- Both the printed-poster (light) and broadcast (dark) palettes are checked against WCAG contrast minimums, small text included.
- No accessibility overlay widget. Overlays paper over problems; we fix the markup.
Known limitations
The wordmark and posters are canvas and SVG art — each carries a text description, but the art itself is visual by nature. The lab page hosts experiments, and experiments occasionally misbehave; nothing essential lives there. If we've missed something anywhere else, that's a bug, not a policy.
Something in your way?
Tell us and it gets fixed — usually fast, because the site is small and so is the studio. Email hello@deadnorth.io with the page and what happened. You'll get a reply from a person, not a ticket number.
Statement reviewed August 2026 · audited against WCAG 2.2 AA