Accessibility
Access is part of the architecture. Artist direction can vary; the ability to enter, read, navigate and recover cannot.
Target
L’INCONNU is working toward WCAG 2.2 Level AA across the public digital House. This is a design and engineering target, not a claim of certification or independent conformity.
Built into the House
- A skip link to main content on House pages.
- One main landmark, descriptive page titles, structured headings and labelled navigation.
- Visible keyboard focus and keyboard operation for the menu, House search and record navigation.
- Browser zoom is never disabled; narrow layouts reflow instead of requiring horizontal page scrolling.
- Reduced-motion and forced-colour preferences have House-level fallbacks.
- Countdown changes are hidden from live announcements; a static release date is available to screen readers.
- House search runs locally and supports Arrow, Home, End and Escape keyboard commands.
- Functional controls use a minimum 44-pixel target; dense lists retain readable spacing.
- Artist expression may change surface and composition but may not remove navigation, focus, labels or recovery paths.
How it is checked
Build-time and browser checks cover headings, labels, focus, contrast rules, keyboard entry, reduced motion, reflow, broken media, layout shift and representative House routes. The cross-browser matrix includes Chromium, Firefox and WebKit in continuous integration; real-device and real assistive-technology review remains a separate human launch requirement.
Known limitations
The remaining limitations are stated here rather than implied to be solved.
- Real assistive-technology review
- Not yet completedThe artist rooms need VoiceOver/NVDA review with actual users before launch.
- Real devices
- Not yet completedPhysical iPhone and mid-range Android testing remains required even after WebKit/Firefox automation passes.
- Commerce
- Not yet testablePayment, delivery and error flows do not exist until a real acquisition provider and terms are chosen.
- Future film and sound
- Not yet presentAny future spoken film requires captions/transcript; ambience may never carry essential meaning.
- Artist worlds
- Long image-led compositions remain the highest manual-review areaHouse-level guards do not replace checking the reading order and alt text of each commissioned world.
Feedback
If something stands in your way, identify the page, device, browser and assistive technology if relevant. Accessibility feedback is treated as a defect report, not as a request for a special version of the House.