Accessibility

What we have done

• Every page works from the keyboard alone, and the focus outline is visible against the background at every step.
• Text and background colours were measured for contrast rather than eyeballed, in both the light and the dark theme.
• Headings are in order, landmarks are marked up, and each page starts with a skip link.
• Links and buttons have touch targets of at least 44 by 44 pixels, including the menu button and every row in the menu it opens.
• Pictures carry text alternatives; the drawings that only decorate a point are hidden from screen readers.
• The layout reflows to a narrow screen without horizontal scrolling, down to 320 pixels wide.
• Nothing flashes or plays on its own, and every bit of movement stops when your system asks for reduced motion.
• The site works with JavaScript switched off, including the menu; only the grid-of-dots button needs it.

Known limitations

The ring you can try on the tour page is a rich control rather than a plain list. It can be reached by tab, walked round with the arrow keys and rearranged with Shift and an arrow, and it announces what it has done, but it has not been tested with every screen reader, and dragging with a pointer has no exact keyboard equal. With JavaScript off it is replaced by a drawing of the ring.

The grid-of-dots button at the top of each page, which lists our other applications, is supplied by a shared script rather than written for this site. We believe it to be keyboard operable, but it has not been through the same testing as the rest of the site.

Some panels carry a good deal of text at small sizes. If anything is hard to read, your browser's own zoom works throughout.

Roundel OS itself

The desktop is mouse-first on purpose. Everything can be done by pointing, nothing has to be memorised, and the ring puts the whole desktop within reach of one hand on a mouse or a trackball, which suits some people far better than a keyboard-driven desktop does.

That cuts the other way too. Someone who cannot use a pointer at all is not well served yet: there are keyboard shortcuts, but they are a convenience rather than a complete route through everything. The desktop has not been formally audited against a desktop accessibility standard, and it does not yet have a full screen-reader workflow. Voice control is an optional extra and covers only common actions.

Telling us about a problem

If something on this site or in the desktop shuts you out, we want to know, and we will fix it. Write to complaints@lightmorphic.com and say what you were trying to do and what got in the way.

This statement was prepared on 20 September 2026 based on our own testing.