Our Commitment
Project Research LLC wants www.bubblepopping.space to be usable by as many people as possible. We are working to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA across the site, and we are open about where we currently fall short.
Conformance Status
WCAG 2.1 defines three levels of conformance: A, AA, and AAA. www.bubblepopping.space targets Level AA.
This site partially conforms with WCAG 2.1 Level AA. “Partially conforms” means some parts of the content do not fully meet the standard, or have not yet been verified by manual testing with real assistive technology. We have not completed a full audit, and we do not claim full or certified compliance.
Compatibility
The content and legal pages (this page included) use standard semantic HTML — headings, landmarks, labeled links — and should work reasonably with most current browsers and assistive technology as a result.
To date, testing has been automated: rendering and interaction checks in Chromium and WebKit-based browsers, plus programmatic contrast and keyboard-operability checks. We have not yet completed manual testing with real screen readers (VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS, Narrator, or Orca) or with other assistive technology such as switch access or voice control. We are not claiming compatibility with any specific assistive technology until that manual testing has been done.
Technical Specifications
Accessibility of www.bubblepopping.space relies on the following technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, plus a small amount of WAI-ARIA where native HTML semantics are not enough (for example, marking the settings panel as expanded or collapsed). These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.
Known Limitations
The bubble-popping activity on the home page is a real-time pointing activity — you look at a moving bubble and click, tap, or press a key to pop it. This makes it a fundamentally visual and motor task. It is not possible to play by sound alone, and we do not claim otherwise. If this affects you and you would like something we do not yet offer, please contact us using the details below.
The dominant accessibility concern with a pointing activity like this one is motor, not visual, so our first round of work focused there. The home page currently offers:
- Larger bubbles — scales up both the bubble and its tap area.
- Slower movement — bubbles fall more slowly, giving more time to aim.
- Bigger tap area — adds extra invisible margin around each bubble so a near-miss still registers.
- Full keyboard operation — every bubble, and the music and settings controls, can be reached with Tab and activated with Enter or Space. No mouse is required.
These settings are available from the settings button in the top-right corner of the home page, before you interact with any bubble, and your choices are remembered on your device for next time. See our Accessibility Help page for the full list of keys.
Other known limitations, and what we're doing about them:
- No manual assistive-technology testing yet. Everything above has been checked programmatically (automated contrast ratios, keyboard-focus order, ARIA state), but not yet by a person using a screen reader or other assistive technology day to day. We plan to do this as part of moving this site out of beta; no fixed date is set yet.
- Native form control styling. The checkboxes in the settings panel use the browser's own built-in appearance (beyond a white checkmark color), so their exact contrast varies by browser and operating system and has not been independently measured.
- Translucent buttons over a moving background. The music and settings buttons are intentionally styled to match the bubbles — a soft, semi-transparent glass sphere — rather than a fully opaque button. In the rare case a bright bubble passes directly behind one of these buttons, the visible contrast of its icon or focus ring against that instant of background can be lower than in front of the normal black canvas. This is a deliberate visual-design tradeoff we have not resolved.
- No advance indicator for double-tap bubbles. About one bubble in ten needs a second tap to pop, and there is currently no visual difference between these and single-tap bubbles until you try. This is a long-standing design choice (the activity has always had no instructions or labels) rather than a new limitation we introduced, but we're noting it here for completeness.
Timing
The activity has no timer, no score, and no fail state by design — there is nothing to complete under time pressure, so WCAG 2.2.1 (Timing Adjustable) does not apply in the way it would to a scored or timed game.
Assessment Approach
Project Research LLC assessed the accessibility of www.bubblepopping.space by self-evaluation: a manual review of the code against WCAG 2.1 Level AA success criteria, combined with automated contrast-ratio and keyboard-behavior checks. This has not been reviewed by an independent third-party accessibility auditor.
Feedback
We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of www.bubblepopping.space. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers, or if there's an accommodation you need that isn't listed above:
Email: Admin@projectresearchllc.com
We try to respond to accessibility feedback within 5 business days.