Accessibility

A recruiting page is often read by a coach on a phone between innings and filled in by a parent late at night. Neither of those is a careful reading environment, and building for them overlaps almost entirely with building for someone using a screen reader or a keyboard.

What we aim for

WCAG 2.1 level AA. That is the target we build against, not a certification we hold — nobody has audited this site, and we are not going to claim conformance we have not had checked.

What is already true by construction: the site works without JavaScript for reading a page, every interactive element is a real button or link rather than a styled div, forms have labels, colour is never the only thing carrying meaning, and text scales when you zoom.

What we know falls short

Reels are video of a player and carry no captions or audio description. For highlight footage with no speech that is largely a formality, but it is a gap and we are not going to describe it as anything else.

Some of the data-dense screens — the coach directory and the tracking tables — are laid out for a wide window and are harder to use at high zoom than the rest of the site.

Tell us

If something here is unusable for you, email [email protected]and say what you were trying to do. That is a bug report and we will treat it as one. If you need something on your player’s page done a different way in the meantime, we will do it by hand rather than make you wait for a fix.