Accessibility

The Pointer Overflow CTF is committed to providing an accessible, inclusive, and equitable experience for all participants. We recognize that our contest draws an international audience with a wide range of backgrounds, languages, and technical skill levels, and we make every reasonable effort to ensure that everyone can participate meaningfully.

Language

All official contest materials — including challenge descriptions, rules, hints, announcements, and communications — are provided in English. This ensures every participant sees the same information at the same time and under the same conditions.

Clarity of Materials

We strive to write challenges, hints, and instructions as clearly and concisely as possible. When clarification is requested, organizers will restate or rephrase information to promote understanding, especially for participants who may be new to cybersecurity or CTF conventions. Organizers do not provide direct solutions or privileged guidance.

Equal Access to Information

All participants receive the same hints, clarifications, and updates. Any private clarification that may affect gameplay will be reposted publicly to ensure fairness and accessibility across all brackets and time zones.

Website & Interface

We design the contest website, scoreboard, and challenge interfaces with accessibility best practices in mind: readable text, high-contrast color palettes, descriptive alt text where appropriate, semantic HTML headings and landmarks, keyboard-navigable controls, and compatibility with common assistive technologies. Our internal target is broadly aligned with WCAG 2.1 Level AA where reasonable for a competitive cybersecurity event. We do not claim formal certification.

Reporting Accessibility Issues

If you encounter an accessibility barrier on the contest site, or if you have specific accommodations you'd like us to consider, please reach out:

We will make every reasonable effort to accommodate accessibility requests within the scope and constraints of a competitive cybersecurity event. Reports about screen-reader compatibility, keyboard navigation, color contrast, or interface confusion are especially welcome — we treat them as bug reports against the contest software.