Accessibility

Where we are

EarWorm has not been through a formal accessibility audit, so we are not claiming WCAG conformance. Saying otherwise without the audit to back it would be a claim we cannot support.

What we do hold ourselves to: every interactive control is a real button or link that keyboards and screen readers can reach, images carry alt text or are marked decorative, controls that are icon-only carry an accessible label, and animation is suppressed when your system asks for reduced motion.

Known gaps

Colour contrast on secondary text against the dark background is lower than we want in places, and is on the list to fix.

The radio player's progress and timing information is conveyed visually; a screen reader will announce the track but not its position.

Some of the marketing page's animated sections are decorative and, while they respect reduced-motion, they have not been individually reviewed for screen reader noise.

Using EarWorm without a mouse

Every page is navigable by keyboard. Focus is visible. The main navigation, the recognition button, radio controls, and all forms are reachable in tab order.

Identifying a song requires microphone access, which browsers gate behind a permission prompt — that prompt is the browser's and is keyboard accessible.

Telling us something is broken

Email accessibility@earworm.network with the page and what went wrong. Tell us what assistive technology you were using if that's relevant.

We treat accessibility reports as bugs, not feature requests.