Accessibility
How this site behaves with a keyboard, a screen reader, or the motion turned down.
What the site does
Every page is built from ordinary headings, lists and links, in the order you would read them, so a screen reader gets a sensible outline rather than a wall of unlabelled boxes.
Everything can be reached with the keyboard alone. A “skip to content” link is the first thing Tab lands on, and the focused element always has a visible outline — the outline is never removed.
Every image of a work carries its title, and decorative images carry nothing, so a screen reader does not read out filenames. Forms have real labels rather than placeholder text, and an error is announced and focused rather than only coloured.
Text sits at high contrast against a warm off-white, well past the usual threshold, and the only saturated colour on any page belongs to a painting.
Text and zoom
Nothing is locked to a pixel size. Zoom to 200% or raise the text size in your browser and the layout reflows to one column instead of breaking.
The site is built for a phone first, so the narrow layout is the one that gets the most attention, not an afterthought.
Motion
The site fades and lifts things gently as you scroll. If your system is set to reduce motion, all of that stops: the animations are switched off, the smooth-scrolling is switched off, and the 3D gallery drops its head-bob and its camera glides.
Nothing on the site flashes, auto-plays, or moves without you asking it to.
The 3D gallery
The walk-through gallery is the one part of this site that is genuinely hard to use for some people. It needs a mouse or a touchscreen to look around, it asks a lot of a graphics card, and it cannot be navigated by screen reader in any useful way.
That is why it is never the only route to anything. Every painting in the gallery is also in the ordinary catalogue, with the same title, date, size and description, on a plain page. If your browser cannot run it at all, it says so and points you there.
Where it falls short
The 3D gallery, as above.
The zoom-and-pan viewer on a work’s page is a pointer gesture; the same image is available at full size without it.
Standards
Telling me about a problem
If something here is hard or impossible to use, write and say what happened, on what device, and with what software. I would rather hear it than not, and I will fix what I can.
If you cannot get at something on the site, say what you were after and I will send it to you directly.
Questions about this page
Write to hello@sunurai.com and say which page you mean. It reaches a person, not a queue.