Accessibility statement

Last updated: October 27, 2026

Department of Ducks wants this website, departmentofducks.com, to work for everyone who visits it, whatever device, browser, assistive technology or settings they use. This statement says how far it gets, and where it does not yet.

The standard we build to

The target is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA, the level the European standard EN 301 549 asks for under the European Accessibility Act.

Conformance status

Partially conformant. Most of the site meets WCAG 2.2 AA. The known exceptions are listed below.

What we have done

• Every page works with a keyboard alone, starts with a skip link, and shows where keyboard focus is.
• Pages use headings, landmarks and labelled controls, so a screen reader can move through them in a sensible order.
• Text meets the AA contrast ratios, and the pages keep working at 320px wide, at 200% zoom and with Windows high contrast colours.
• All three videos have captions and a written description of everything they show, and none of them plays on its own.
• The walking duck on the home page can be stopped with the "Stop the duck" button, stays still once stopped, and does not appear at all if your device asks for reduced motion.
• The two spiders on the MaMills page's Halloween button move on their own for under five seconds when the page opens. After that they move only while you point at the button or it has keyboard focus, and for a few seconds after, and not at all if your device asks for reduced motion.
• Every change is checked automatically in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, including an axe accessibility scan of every page.

Known limitations

• No audio-described versions of the videos (WCAG 1.2.5). The studio teaser, the MaMills trailer and the Halloween teaser have no speech, and there is no version with a spoken description. Each has a full written description instead: "Describe this teaser" on the home page, and "Describe this trailer" and "Describe this teaser" under the two videos on the game page.
• Manual screen reader testing is not complete. The checks above are automated. A full pass with VoiceOver, NVDA and TalkBack has not been done yet.
• Pages we do not run. The Steam store page, where the Available on Steam buttons lead, belongs to Valve and is not covered by this statement.

The game

This statement covers the website. MaMills itself has its own accessibility settings, among them colour-blind safe and patterned palettes, larger text and reduced motion; the MaMills page lists them.

Tell us about a barrier

If something on this site does not work for you, or you need anything in another format, write to mamillsgame@gmail.com. Please say which page it was, what you were trying to do and what you use to browse. We read every message and will reply.

If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can contact the authority responsible for accessibility in your country.