Accessibility of this site
We gather what museums say about access and we write to them for what they leave unsaid. Our own site owes the same to whoever cannot see the screen, cannot take a mouse, or has magnified the page fourfold.
Enfilade meets WCAG 2.2 at level AA. That is the international standard for the accessibility of pages on the web; level AA is what European Union law requires of public-sector sites. The promise holds for all four languages and for every kind of page: the catalogue, a city, a museum's entry, what's on, an exhibition's page, the selections, the service pages and the page for an address that does not exist.
Before anything goes out the site passes a check that opens sixty states in a real browser, each in three windows: a desktop, a phone, and a window of 320 by 256 points, which is what a screen becomes at 400% magnification. A state and a page are two different things here: the filter at rest and the filter opened are checked apart, because to someone moving through the site by key they are two different pages. The check presses Tab across every control, presses Escape on every tooltip, compares a screenshot taken with focus against one taken without it, and asks the browser how much of what we wrote reaches a program that reads the page aloud. Eight deliberate faults are sewn into the check itself, and it is required to catch every one of them. A run that misses any of the eight proves nothing.
No one has yet been through the site with an actual program that reads a page aloud: the check proves that every button has a name and a description and that both are the right ones, but how the whole of it sounds in sequence the check cannot hear. The curator's rooms lie outside it — that is one person's workplace behind a password. Level AAA we do not promise.
Write to us if something will not open. Say what you read the page with and what failed on it. Letters of that kind we take before the rest.