Word Find Creator
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English is the site’s main language. Menus, buttons and tools switch to the language you pick. Puzzle words and articles stay in English.

Accessibility

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Word Find Creator aims to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. We have tested the main tasks with a keyboard, at 200% text size, in light and dark modes, and with reduced motion. We haven’t had an independent audit, so we don’t claim full conformance.

Playing without a mouse

  • Keyboard: press Tab to move into the grid (it’s one stop, not hundreds). Use the arrow keys to move, Home/End for the row ends, Page Up/Page Down for the top and bottom rows. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, move to the last letter, and press Enter or Space again. Escape cancels a selection.
  • Tap, tap: on a touch screen or with a mouse, you don’t need to drag. Tap the first letter, then tap the last letter.
  • Screen readers: each square announces its row, column and letter. Finding a word announces the word and your progress. Found words are marked with a check and the word “found”, not only by color.

Seeing the puzzle

  • Board zoom buttons make every square larger. Large boards scroll inside their own frame and never squeeze letters below a readable size.
  • Browser zoom and text size settings work across the site.
  • Light and dark themes are available in the footer; printed sheets are always black on white.
  • Large print PDFs guarantee at least 18 pt grid letters and 16 pt word lists at 100% scale.
  • The site’s typeface, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, was designed for readers with low vision.

Motion and sound

If your device asks for reduced motion, non-essential animation is turned off. Sound is off by default and is never needed to play. The timer is off by default.

Known limitations

  • Very large grids (over about 18×18) on small phones need scrolling inside the board. Use a smaller grid for the most comfortable phone play.
  • Reading every square of a large grid with a screen reader is slow. The word list, progress and announcements are designed to help, but a word search is a visual puzzle at heart.
  • Optional machine translation of articles uses Google Translate and is outside our control.

Feedback

If something doesn’t work for you, please tell us what you were trying to do and what device and assistive technology you use: kemelmidlej@gmail.com. Accessibility fixes are treated as high priority.