At Burn My Shallow Ground, we believe there is no compromise between creating a highly immersive, cyberpunk audio-visual experience and providing world-class accessibility. We have engineered multiple systems to ensure our content is available to everyone, regardless of physical or cognitive abilities.
Below is a clear, understandable guide to the accessibility features available on this platform and how to use them.
We built a completely separate, streamlined version of our website called the A11Y Portal. It contains all the same content, music, and information, but is stripped of all complex 3D graphics (WebGL), animations, and sensory-heavy styling.
Enter on it will immediately redirect you to the portal.Music and lyrics are the core of Burn My Shallow Ground. Our custom sticky audio player features a built-in Lyrics Viewer.
Every single interactive element on the main website—including custom audio controls, hidden data logs, and navigation menus—can be accessed using standard keyboard controls (Tab, Shift+Tab, Enter, Space).
We use modern CSS techniques (scroll-padding-bottom) to ensure that when you use the keyboard to tab through the site, the item you are focused on will never be hidden underneath our sticky audio player.
Our custom controls use hidden ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) labels. For example, our audio player uses icon buttons visually, but announces "Play Track," "Pause Track," and "Toggle Lyrics" clearly to screen readers. We also use aria-live regions so that when a new track starts playing, screen readers will politely announce the title of the new track.
Accessibility is not an afterthought. Every time we update the code for Burn My Shallow Ground, an automated testing suite powered by Axe-Core runs in the background. This software scans all pages (including our WebGL Mansion and Synth interfaces) to ensure we haven't broken any WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) standards.
The main website uses heavy, dark-mode styling and CRT/VHS-style distortion effects for artistic reasons. If these effects cause you discomfort, fatigue, or you experience interference with assistive technology:
If you encounter any barriers while navigating the archives or interacting with our audio systems, please initiate contact. Send an email to contact@burnmyshallowground.com so we can deploy a patch immediately.