Accessibility statement
toolcrate should be usable by everyone: with a keyboard, a screen reader, zoomed in, in dark mode, or on a small phone. This page says how well it does that, where it falls short, and how to tell us about a problem.
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What you can expect
- Keyboard: every tool can be used without a mouse. Links, buttons and form fields are real ones, in a sensible order, with a clearly visible focus outline. A “Skip to content” link comes first on every page, and / jumps to the tool search.
- Screen readers: form fields have labels, buttons and controls have names, pages have proper headings, and images that carry meaning have text descriptions.
- Zoom and small screens: pinch zoom is never blocked, and every page works on a phone-width screen without sideways scrolling, so you can zoom in to around 300% on a computer and keep reading.
- Colour and contrast: text meets the WCAG AA contrast levels in both the light and dark themes. The dark theme follows your device’s setting, and the ☾ button switches it.
- Movement: if your device asks for reduced motion, animations and transitions are switched off.
- Plain language: instructions are written to be understood first time, with step-by-step “How to” sections on every tool.
How we check
Every page on the site, in both light and dark themes, is checked automatically against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at levels A and AA with axe-core, every time the site changes. Every page is also loaded at phone and computer widths to check nothing is cut off or needs sideways scrolling. At the moment those checks find no failures, and any that appear are fixed straight away.
Automated checks can’t find everything, so tools are also tried by hand on phones and computers, and we fix problems people report.
What isn’t fully accessible yet
toolcrate aims to meet WCAG 2.1 AA and partly does: these are the gaps we know about.
- Fast action games (such as Snake, Breakout, Pinball, Galaxy Defender, Whack-a-Mole and Reaction Time) depend on quick reactions and on seeing a moving picture. They can be played with a keyboard but not with a screen reader. The puzzle, word and board games are easier to use without sight, but some still rely on looking at a board.
- Colour and sound games for young children (such as Colour Match, Baby Paint and Animal Sounds) rely on colour, pictures or sound by design.
- Drawing and dragging: drawing a signature, drawing boxes to redact a PDF, and dragging pages into order need a pointer or touch. There’s usually another way: you can type a signature, find and black out text by searching, and move pages with buttons. Placing a signature on a page needs a tap or click; once placed, it moves and resizes with the keyboard.
- PDF and image previews are pictures of your file, so a screen reader can’t read what’s in them. The tools still describe what they do and what they produce.
- Live results: many tools update their answer as you type. Some announce it to screen readers; in others you need to move to the result to hear it. We’re adding announcements tool by tool.
Tell us about a problem
If something doesn’t work for you, or you need it to work differently, please say so. Use Report a problem at the bottom of any tool or game, or the contact form, or email admin.toolcrate@gmail.com. Say which page it was and what you were using (for example a screen reader, or keyboard only), and we’ll look into it. A real person reads every message.
About this statement
This statement was written on 14 October 2026, from the automated checks above and testing by hand, and is reviewed when the site changes in ways that affect it. toolcrate is a free, independent website, not a public body, but it follows the same standard UK public sector websites are held to.