Accessibility Statement

Last updated: 2026-07-27

Status. This is the current version, and it describes how WatchMatrix.TV actually works today, so you can rely on it as our statement of what we do. It is a first version that has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer. If that review changes anything, we will update this page and move the date above.

Our position

We want WatchMatrix.TV to work for as many people as possible, including people who use a keyboard only, a screen reader, a television remote, or a large text size.

We are going to be straightforward with you about where we are. Some real accessibility work has gone into this product. It has never been formally tested or audited. So this page tells you what we have built, what we know is not right yet, and how to tell us when you hit something we have missed.

Conformance status

The standard we are working towards is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA.

WatchMatrix.TV is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Partially conformant means some parts of the content do not fully conform.

We want to be clear about the basis for that: no formal accessibility audit has been carried out, by us or by anyone else. We have not tested the site with screen readers, we have not run an automated accessibility scan, and we have not measured colour contrast. What we describe below as working is described from how the product is built, not from test results. There may be problems we do not know about, and the list of known problems is not a complete list of problems.

We have not produced an accessibility conformance report or a VPAT.

What we have built

• Keyboard operation. The interface can be operated with a keyboard. Keyboard shortcuts are built in and listed inside the product: press ? or F2 in the viewer to see them. Esc closes the list.
• The grid can be resized without a mouse. The dividers between tiles are reachable by keyboard, identify themselves to assistive technology as separators, and are resized with the arrow keys. Dragging is not the only way to do it.
• Every video tile is named.Each embedded player carries the stream’s label, so assistive technology announces what a tile is rather than reading it as an unlabelled frame.
• Visible focus. Keyboard focus is shown with a visible outline, and it is drawn thicker on the television surfaces where you sit further away.
• Reduced motion is respected. If your device is set to reduce motion, the animations are turned off.
• Larger targets on touch devices, for a named set of controls.On a touch screen, the stylesheet raises a specific list to a 44 pixel minimum height: the standard buttons, the address input and its go button, the Watch link in the navigation, the footer links, and the control pill. The watch tracker’s own buttons and steppers are 44 pixels on every device. That is the list, not a property of every control on every screen, and because none of it has been tested it describes what the stylesheet does rather than a measured result.
• Changing content is announced.Party chat, the countdown, the sleep timer, and the tracker’s counters are marked as live regions so a screen reader announces changes instead of leaving them silent.
• Dialogs are marked as dialogs and carry their own titles.
• Images. Decorative artwork is hidden from screen readers so it is not read out as noise, and images that carry meaning, such as pairing QR codes and title artwork, have text descriptions.
• Television remotes. The big-screen and cast surfaces support 5-way remote navigation, including the Back button on LG webOS and Samsung Tizen televisions, which use different key codes from each other.
• In the mobile app, controls carry accessibility labels and roles for VoiceOver and TalkBack.

What we know is not right yet

• There is no “skip to content” link. On the viewer, a keyboard user has to move through the control bar before reaching the video grid.
• The controls fade out after 7 seconds of no input. They stay reachable by keyboard while faded, which means you can reach a control you cannot see. Pressing any key, including Tab, brings the interface straight back.
• Streams start playing automatically, muted. A grid can start several at once, and there is currently no setting to stop that before the tiles load. Sound starts only when you unmute a tile yourself.
• Dialogs do not trap keyboard focus. Focus can move out of an open dialog to the page behind it, and it is not returned to where you were when the dialog closes.
• We have not measured colour contrast. The interface is a dark theme with bright accent colours. Some of it may not meet the contrast requirement. We do not currently know which parts.
• A grid with many tiles makes each player small, which can make controls and text hard to see and hard to hit.
• The video players are not ours.Each stream plays inside the platform’s own player, from YouTube, Twitch, Kick, Rumble or X. Captions, audio description, player keyboard controls, and the accessibility of the chat panels are provided by those platforms and are outside our control. If a player has an accessibility problem, we cannot fix it, though we would still like to know, because we can sometimes work around it or tell you where the platform’s own setting is.
• The desktop app, the browser extensions, and the television app have not been reviewed for accessibility at all.

What we are doing about it

We are working through the list above. We do not have a completion date, and we are not going to invent one. When something is fixed, it will be removed from that list and the date at the top of this page will change.

Tell us when something does not work

This is the part that matters most. If you cannot use part of WatchMatrix.TV, please tell us. You do not need to know the technical term for the problem. Telling us what you were trying to do, what happened, and what you use to browse is plenty.

Contact: watch.matrix.tv@gmail.com. We read accessibility reports and we will reply, but we are not going to publish a response-time promise we cannot be sure of keeping. If you contact us about an accessibility problem and are not satisfied with our reply, please tell us that too.

Technical information

• Standard applied: WCAG 2.1 Level AA.
• Conformance status: partially conformant. No formal audit has been carried out.
• How this statement was prepared:by reviewing the application’s source code on 2026-07-27. It has not been reviewed by an external accessibility specialist and no user testing with disabled people has been carried out.
• Technologies this site relies on: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and third-party video players delivered in frames.
• Surfaces covered by this statement: the WatchMatrix.TV website. The desktop application, browser extensions and television application are not covered.