Accessibility statement

Our commitment

We aim for this website, and HawkEye's own pages in the app, to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA.

In the HawkEye app

Seeing and reading

• Text size: make everything larger, up to 150%, in Settings, then Accessibility. It's the same setting as Interface size in Settings, then Appearance, which also goes down to 90%.
• High contrast: stronger contrast for text, borders and controls.
• Easy-read font: switch HawkEye's text to a clear, wide font that's already on your computer, with more space between letters, words and lines.
• Strong focus outline and bigger buttons: a thick outline shows where the keyboard is, links are underlined, and buttons and switches get bigger and easier to click.
• Color-blind-safe price colors: show prices going up and down in colors that people with common kinds of color blindness can tell apart.
• Nothing important is said only by sound or only by color: right and wrong answers, prices going up or down, and alerts always come with words or symbols too.

Listening and speaking

• Read aloud: HawkEye can read text out loud (text to speech) and highlights each word as it reads a lesson or one of HawkBot's answers. Choose the voice and adjust its speed, pitch and volume. It uses the voices on your computer, so no audio leaves your device.
• Voice input: speak instead of typing, and HawkEye turns your speech into text (speech to text). The recording goes to HawkBot's AI provider only to do that, and isn't stored on our servers.
• Talon's voice: Talon, HawkEye's mascot and coach in The Range, can say its lines out loud, also using your computer's own voices.
• What Talon and HawkBot say is also plain text you can select, copy and read with a screen reader.

Motion and flashing

• Seizure-safe mode turns off flashing and strobing effects and fast-changing patterns across HawkEye.
• Reduce motion turns page animations into simple fades, holds 3D scenes still, and plays the intros and the launch film without their movement. HawkEye also follows your system's reduced-motion setting.
• Both are in Settings, then Accessibility. Settings, then Appearance can also show each 3D scene as a still picture.
• The first time you open HawkEye, it shows a photosensitivity warning with a button that turns on Seizure-safe mode.

Keyboard and screen readers

• Everything you can click can be reached with Tab and pressed with Enter or Space, and keyboard focus always shows a visible outline.
• Buttons that only show an icon have a text label for screen readers, and pictures have descriptions (decorative ones are hidden from screen readers).
• Sound effects can be turned on or off in Settings, then Appearance, and Show sounds on screen (Settings, then Accessibility) puts a short caption on screen for each one.
• Shortcuts: Ctrl + Shift + U reads the selected text out loud, Ctrl + Shift + M starts voice typing in the box you're in, and the first Tab press jumps past the menus to the page. Settings, then Accessibility lists every shortcut.

Photosensitivity warning

A very small number of people may have a seizure when they see certain images, including flashing lights or patterns, even if they have no history of seizures or epilepsy. HawkEye's animations, intros and 3D scenes move and change brightness. If you or anyone in your family has had seizures or epilepsy, ask a doctor before using HawkEye. Stop right away and see a doctor if you notice dizziness, altered vision, eye or muscle twitching, disorientation, any involuntary movement, or loss of awareness. Seizure-safe mode and Reduce motion lower the risk, but they can't remove it for everyone, and they don't change third-party sites you open inside HawkEye. On this website, your system's reduced-motion setting holds the Home page's 3D scene and the strip of platforms at the top still and stops the other animations, and the Pause motion button at the end of that strip does the same for the page you're on. With that setting on, the short animation that opens your first page on the site is a still picture of the hawk. With or without it, any key, click or tap skips that animation.

How we checked this website

On 2026-10-24, for HawkEye 1.7.1, we checked every page again:

• A script confirmed that each page declares its language, has a unique title and description and exactly one main heading, gives every image alt text (empty alt text on decorative images), and that every link on the site leads somewhere.
• Every text color was measured against the backgrounds it sits on with the WCAG contrast formula. The lowest pair is 4.95 to 1, above the 4.5 to 1 that AA asks for.
• In a Chromium-based browser, every link and button on every page was checked to take keyboard focus with a visible outline that the bars at the top of the page don't cover, and the main flows were run with the keyboard alone: the skip link, the menu on narrow screens, the Pause motion button, and the chart loader on the Terminal page.
• Pages were checked at phone width (375 pixels) for layout and sideways scrolling.
• With reduced motion switched on, the 3D scene on the Home page and the moving strip of platforms at the top hold still, and the other animations stop. The Pause motion button at the end of that strip does the same for the page you're on.

Known limitations

• The chart on the Terminal page comes from TradingView. We can't change how accessible it is, and the rest of that page works without it.
• We haven't tested the site with a screen reader yet.
• The legal pages are long. Each one starts with a list of its sections.
• In the app, the tools on the Terminal, Charts and Intel pages are third-party websites. Their accessibility, including any flashing or motion, is up to them, and HawkEye can't change it.
• Voice input needs a microphone, a HawkEye account and an internet connection.
• Read aloud and Talon's voice use the voices installed on your computer, so the choice of voices depends on your system.
• Charts, the 3D scenes and some Arcade games are visual by nature. The lessons, quizzes and HawkBot cover the same ideas in text.
• We check keyboard use and reduced motion with every update. Screen reader support hasn't been tested end to end yet.

Report a problem

If something on this site or in the app doesn't work for you, email projecthawkeye.cc@gmail.com with the page, what went wrong and what assistive technology you use, or post in the HawkEye Community Discord.

Date

This statement was prepared on 2026-10-01 and updated on 2026-10-24.