Accessibility

What we aim for

This site targets WCAG 2.2 Level AA. That is a target we work to, not a certification, and there will be things we have missed.

What has been built in

Motion

Everything that moves respects your reduced motion setting. Turn it on in your operating system and the opening animation does not play, the marquee stops, parallax is disabled, and the custom cursor is switched off. Nothing disappears when animation does — every scroll-triggered element is already in its finished state rather than waiting to be revealed.

Keyboard

Every control can be reached and operated by keyboard alone. There is a skip link to the main content as the first stop on the page. Focus is always visible: a gold ring, switching to a darker one on light backgrounds so it is never lost against the colour behind it.

The cart, the menu and the artwork zoom are real dialogs, so focus is contained while they are open, Escape closes them, and focus returns to the control you opened them from.

Screen readers

• Every artwork image has descriptive alt text that says what is depicted — the figure, the colours, the materials — not just a title.
• Decorative shapes and textures are hidden from assistive technology entirely.
• The marquee is announced once as a plain list of words, not twice as the duplicated visual track.
• Artwork specifications are marked up as a description list, so title and value are read as pairs.
• Adding to the cart, filtering results and submitting a form all announce their outcome politely.

Colour and contrast

The palette is drawn from Patricia’s paintings and is deliberately vivid, so contrast has been checked rather than assumed. Body text and controls meet at least 4.5:1 against their background. Colour is never the only way information is conveyed — availability, for example, is always stated in words as well as shown by colour.

Forms

Every field has a visible label bound to it — placeholders are never used as labels. Hints and errors are associated with their field so they are read out together. A failed submission moves focus to a summary listing each problem, with links to the fields.

Touch and mobile

Interactive controls are at least 44 by 44 pixels. The custom cursor is disabled entirely on touch devices. Pages can be zoomed and text resized without content being lost or overlapping.

Known limitations

• The full-resolution artwork zoom is a visual feature. The same information is conveyed in each image’s alt text and in the artwork description.
• The horizontal detail gallery scrolls sideways. It is keyboard scrollable, and every panel’s caption and description are readable in the normal page flow.
• Payment is completed on Stripe’s own checkout page, whose accessibility is Stripe’s responsibility rather than ours.

Tell us when we get it wrong

If something on this site is hard or impossible for you to use, please tell us. Say what you were trying to do, what got in the way, and what you were using — that is enough for us to fix it. Reports are taken seriously and acted on.

If you cannot use the site to buy a piece you want, contact us and we will complete the sale with you personally.