Accessibility
Open Dungeons is committed to making the website, game rules, tools, and resources usable by as many people as possible, including people who navigate by keyboard or use screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Open Dungeons is an online-only website and does not operate a physical storefront, retail location, gaming venue, or other physical place of public accommodation connected to the services provided through the website. Under current Ninth Circuit precedent, Title III website claims generally require a connection, or nexus, between the challenged online service and an actual physical place of public accommodation.
Even with that distinction, accessibility is important to Open Dungeons. The goal is straightforward: people who want to read the rules, build a character, use the game tools, roll dice, or otherwise enjoy Open Dungeons should have a practical way to do so, including people who use assistive technologies.
Accessibility standard
Open Dungeons has voluntarily adopted the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Level AA as the technical accessibility target for the website.
WCAG provides a measurable framework for evaluating web accessibility. The U.S. Department of Justice has not established a detailed technical website standard under ADA Title III for private entities, although WCAG is among the technical standards identified by the Department as useful accessibility guidance.
Open Dungeons does not describe the website as "ADA certified," "100% accessible," or guarantee that every page, tool, or document is completely free of accessibility barriers.
Accessibility is treated as an ongoing part of maintaining Open Dungeons rather than a one-time project.
Accessibility work
A substantial accessibility review and remediation project has been performed across the Open Dungeons WordPress theme, public content, navigation, custom plugins, search systems, and interactive game tools.
Accessibility improvements have included:
- Keyboard navigation and visible keyboard focus
- Skip-to-content navigation
- Heading and page structure
- Navigation menus and collapsed content
- Accessible names for links, buttons, and controls
- Alternative text for meaningful images
- Form labels, instructions, validation, and error messages
- Screen-reader status announcements
- Search and filtering controls
- Accessible tables and sortable table headers
- Dialog and modal keyboard behavior
- Color contrast and non-color visual indicators
- Reduced-motion support
- Touch-target sizing
- Responsive layouts and page reflow
- Character Generator accessibility
- Dice Roller accessibility
- Dungeon Narrator Screen accessibility
- Monster Creator accessibility
- Reference Hub accessibility
- Search, archive, and error-page accessibility
The accessibility inventory covers more than 1,700 public URLs across Open Dungeons.
Automated accessibility testing is used as supporting evidence, not as the sole measure of accessibility. The project also includes source-code review, keyboard testing, browser testing, interactive workflow testing, structural review, and assistive-technology testing.
Downloadable PDFs
Open Dungeons contains a substantial library of downloadable PDF game books, character sheets, adventures, references, and other resources.
PDF accessibility presents different technical challenges from ordinary web pages. Accessibility work has included evaluation of document metadata, language information, form-field names, and other document characteristics.
Some downloadable PDFs still require additional structural and screen-reader evaluation. Complete accessibility of every downloadable document has not been established.
Where practical, game information is also made available directly through accessible HTML pages and interactive tools on the Open Dungeons website.
PDF accessibility will continue to be evaluated separately from the main website.
Testing and ongoing review
Accessibility testing continues as part of the deployment and maintenance process.
Testing includes or is planned to include screen readers, keyboard-only navigation, browser zoom at 200% and 400%, mobile layouts, high-contrast and forced-color environments, reduced-motion settings, responsive reflow, and other real-world accessibility configurations.
Open Dungeons contains hundreds of pages and numerous custom interactive tools. Accessibility will therefore continue to be reviewed as significant features, tools, or content are added or changed.
Finding and correcting an accessibility issue is considered part of normal website maintenance.
Found an accessibility problem?
Accessibility problems can be reported through the Contact page.
When reporting a problem, please include the page, tool, or document involved and a brief description of what happened.
Information about the browser, device, screen reader, or other assistive technology being used can be helpful when investigating a problem, but providing that information is not required.
Accessibility reports will be reviewed and, when a barrier is confirmed, Open Dungeons will work toward correcting the problem or providing a practical alternative way to access the affected information or functionality.
The goal
Open Dungeons is free to use, requires no account, and exists to make tabletop roleplaying resources available to players.
Accessibility follows the same philosophy.
The technical accessibility target for Open Dungeons is WCAG 2.2 Level AA. Testing, correction, and maintenance will continue as the website evolves.
Last updated: August 8, 2026