Accessibility Statement

Last reviewed September 2026

Where we stand. Golf Kingdom is a 3D game controlled by touch. Its menus, settings, store, community and legal pages are ordinary HTML and work with assistive technology; the 3D course, the base view and the swing itself do not yet. We measure against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 level AA and, honestly, partially conform. This page lists what helps today, what does not work yet, and how to reach us.

1. Settings that help

All of these are in ⚙️ Settings, reachable from the tab bar on the home screen and from the ☰ menu during a round.

Screen shake off: removes the camera shake on long drives. It is also switched off automatically when your phone's Reduce Motion setting is on.
Haptics off: no vibration on impact, wins or taps.
Sound off: the game is fully playable in silence; nothing is communicated by sound alone.
Hole fly-over off: skips the moving camera preview of each hole and goes straight to the tee.
Aim guide: a line showing the planned shot, on by default.
Tutorial tips: on-screen coach marks you can keep or dismiss.
Battery saver: caps play at 30 frames per second on phones that get hot.
Notifications off: no reminders.
Your phone's Reduce Motion setting also removes the bounce animations on cards, menus and the logo.

2. What works

Menus, panels and buttons are real HTML buttons with text labels. Screen readers (VoiceOver, TalkBack) announce them, and the settings switches report on/off. Icons are decorative emoji beside text, never the only label.
Tap targets: menu buttons are large, and settings switches accept a tap anywhere on their row, not just on the switch.
Colour is never the only signal: scores are shown as numbers and words (birdie, bogey), hazards have distinct shapes and textures as well as colours, and the aim guide is a line, not a colour change.
Text contrast: settings labels and the in-app legal text are dark ink on light parchment, above the WCAG AA ratio of 4.5:1. Body text on this site is 16 px; in-app legal text is 13 px.
No deliberate flashing effects. The Terms still carry the standard photosensitivity notice because any moving 3D image can affect some people.
No timed reading. Every card, dialog and tutorial step waits for you to tap. Short toast messages do disappear on their own; nothing you must act on is shown only as a toast.
Landscape only, on purpose, so the layout is stable; both native apps lock the orientation.
Offline and slow connections: the game runs without a connection; only publishing, scores and cloud saves wait.

3. Known limitations

The 3D scene is not accessible to screen readers. The course, the ball, the buildings on your base and the hole builder are drawn on a canvas. There is no text alternative describing the lie, the distance to the pin or the shape of a hole beyond the yardage and par shown in the HUD.
The swing is timed. Power and accuracy are set by tapping at the right moment on a moving meter. There is no untimed or auto-swing mode yet. Swing tuning (Settings → 🎚) lets you slow the windup and downswing down, which makes the timing easier but does not remove it.
Touch only. There is no keyboard or game-controller control for play. In the browser version the menus can be reached with Tab and Enter, though the focus outline is not visible on every control, and aiming, swinging and moving the camera need a pointer or touch. Switch Control and Voice Control on iOS have not been tested.
Fixed text size. The game does not follow the phone's Dynamic Type or the browser's zoom; pinch-to-zoom is used to move the camera and is disabled for the page. Legal text can instead be read at full size on this website.
Images and the fly-over have no description. Currency icons in the HUD are marked decorative because the number beside them carries the meaning; the 3D fly-over of a hole and the base view have no text equivalent yet.
Camera motion in play (following the ball, the fly-over) cannot be fully disabled; the fly-over can.
No colour-blind palette option yet. The fairway, rough, sand and water are chosen to differ in brightness and texture as well as hue, but we have not verified every course and season against all forms of colour vision deficiency.

4. What we plan

In priority order, after launch: a visible focus outline on every control; an untimed swing option; a text description of each hole (par, yardage, hazards, lie) readable by screen readers; larger-text option for HUD and menus; a colour-blind check on the course palette. No dates are promised; this page is updated when something ships.

5. This website

golf-kingdom.com is static HTML with headings, landmarks and a logical reading order, keyboard-navigable links, visible focus, 16 px body text and AA contrast. It has no video, audio or forms. The decorative app icon is marked as such. If anything here is hard to use, the contact below applies to the site too.

6. Tell us what is in your way

Email support@golf-kingdom.com with the word Accessibility in the subject. Say what you were trying to do, which device and assistive technology you use, and what happened. A real person reads every message. If something we can fix in a session is blocking you from playing, it goes to the front of the queue.

7. Enforcement and formal complaints

If you are not satisfied with our response you may contact the equality or disability-rights body where you live. In the United States that is the Department of Justice (ada.gov); in the United Kingdom the Equality Advisory and Support Service; in the European Union your national body under the European Accessibility Act.