Accessibility

A gallery that only some people can walk into is not a gallery. This page says what has actually been built into Mirevoir, what is still short of where it should be, and what happens when you tell us.

What we build to

The target is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.2, at level AA. That is a target, not a certificate — nobody outside the house has audited this site. What follows is written from the code, not from a template.

What is in place

• Structure. Every page carries one first-level heading and its headings descend in order. The header, the main region and the footer are real landmarks, and both menus are named, so a screen reader can jump between them instead of reading from the top each time.
• Keyboard.Every link, button and field is reachable and operable from the keyboard alone, in the order it appears on the page. Nothing here needs a hover, a drag or a pointer — the movement on a drop card is decoration over information that is already written out. The mobile menu closes with Escape.
• Focus. Focus is never suppressed. A brass outline sits three pixels clear of whatever holds it, in one style, on every control on the site.
• Contrast. Body copy and headings are near-black on bone, far above the ratio the standard asks for.
• Images.Every product photograph is described by what it is and what shade it is — matte lipstick in deep crimson, not product image. The sold-out seal is a drawn mark, so it is hidden from assistive software and its words are given again as text.
• Motion. If your system asks for reduced motion, this site listens. The reveals become plain, the ticker stops and resets to the start rather than freezing mid-word, and the countdown drops its seconds so nothing on the page is in permanent movement.
• The one form.The email field is labelled, typed and left to your browser to autofill, and the confirmation after you join the list is announced to a screen reader rather than only appearing. The countdown, which changes every second, is deliberately silent — it is given once as a sentence instead.

Where it is not there yet

• There is no skip link. The header is short — a wordmark and three links — so the cost is small, but it should be there and it is not.
• Opening the mobile menu does not move focus into it and does not hold focus inside it, so a keyboard user can tab past the panel into the page behind it. Escape closes it. This is the first thing on the list.
• The faintest tier of text — lot numbers, captions, dated labels — sits near three to one against the paper. That clears the standard at the large mono sizes and fails it at the small ones. It is being raised.
• Type is set in fixed pixel sizes. Page zoom scales it correctly to two hundred per cent without clipping or overlap, but a text-only size increase does not move it.
• The sold-out seal sets its last line at seven pixels. It is decorative and every word of it is repeated in the page text, but it is smaller than any type should be.
• Testing is done by hand, with a keyboard and a screen reader, against the browsers we have. It is not an audit, and it does not cover every reader and browser pair.