# Accessibility Statement

Gig Line is a keyboard/mouse-first first-person game with gamepad support. The
current build includes the following accessibility features:

- Remappable keyboard and gamepad bindings, persisted in `settings.json`.
- Keyboard focus rings and explicit default focus in every modal, with A/B
  accept/cancel on a gamepad and wrapped Tab/arrow navigation.
- Adjustable HUD font scale up to 1.75× with clipped/ellipsized long labels.
- Reduced-motion mode that disables head bob and motion-sensitive presentation.
- Captions in the HUD log for radio, interaction and event messages.
- Master, SFX and ambience volume controls.
- Shape plus number escalation meter, so escalation is readable without colour.
- Hold-to-confirm emergency action and guarded destructive actions.
- Searchable Help generated from the live input bindings.
- Mouse-transparent HUD, right-click/Esc modal handling, and a predictable
  top-panel close path.

Known gaps:

- There is no screen-reader integration or text-to-speech narration.
- The game is English-only; no pseudo-locale or full localization review has
  been completed.
- The visual style is stylized and some small environmental detail may be hard
  to read at low resolution; a full low-vision/high-contrast audit is pending.
- Audio captions cover gameplay messages, not every ambient sound.
- A formal WCAG conformance claim has **not** been made. External accessibility
  review is still a 0.10.0 release-review item.

Test evidence and the manual checklist live in
[`release-qa.md`](release-qa.md#manual-smoke-checklist); settings and save behaviour are
documented in [`getting-started.md`](getting-started.md).