Accessibility

We want everyone to be able to look through our work and reach us, whatever they browse with. An editorial site like this one leans on motion, fine type and a custom cursor, and those choices can exclude people. Rather than defend them, we have made each one optional and put the controls one keystroke away.

We aim for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 at Level AA. We consider the site partially conformant: most of it meets that bar, and the gaps we know about are listed below rather than left for you to find.

The button marked with a figure, at the bottom right of every page, opens a panel of controls. Your choices are saved in your own browser and applied before the next page paints, so you set them once.

• A skip link, first in the tab order, that jumps straight past the navigation to the page content.
• Full keyboard operation: every menu, filter, accordion and lightbox can be reached and used without a mouse, and closes on Escape.
• Visible focus outlines that are never removed, in a colour that holds up against both the light and dark sections.
• Semantic headings and landmarks, so a screen reader can move by structure.
• Alternative text on photography, and decorative elements hidden from assistive technology rather than read aloud.
• Background music kept low, faded in rather than snapped on, with the mute control placed first after the skip link so it never has to be hunted for. Mute once and it stays muted, on this visit and every one after.
• Real text rather than pictures of text, so it reflows, recolours and scales.
• Respect for your operating system's reduced-motion preference, with no JavaScript required.

We would rather name these than let you discover them:

• The draggable gallery is built for a pointer. It can be tabbed through and read, but the drag itself has no keyboard equivalent yet.
• Instagram embeds are Meta's markup, not ours, and their accessibility is outside our control. Every embedded film also appears as a plain link you can open on Instagram directly.
• Some display type is set at low contrast against photography for effect. Increase contrast fixes it; on the default setting a few headings sit near the AA threshold rather than comfortably past it.
• The tickers scroll continuously. Reduce motion stops them, but there is no separate pause button on the tickers themselves.
• Longer legal pages have no contents jump list on narrow screens.

Each of these is on the list to fix, and we would rather hear which one is blocking you than guess the order.

The site is built to current web standards and tested in recent versions of Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge, on desktop and on phones, with VoiceOver and with keyboard-only navigation. Older browsers may render it imperfectly.

REVIEW — record the date of the last full audit here, and add NVDA or JAWS once tested on Windows.

If any part of this site keeps you out, write to hello@conceptsbymaic.lk or call +94 71 887 9327. Tell us the page and what happened, and we will reply within five working days with either a fix or a date for one. If you need information from the site in another format — large print, plain text, a phone call — just ask, and there is no charge.

This statement covers the website. Access at an event — step-free routes, seating, hearing loops, quiet rooms, dietary and medical requirements — is part of the planning itself. Raise it at the first meeting and it goes into the run sheet, not into a footnote.