Reading this site with a keyboard, a screen reader or a small screen

The target is WCAG 2.1 level AA. WCAG stands for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: the international standard for how a website has to behave for people who use it with a keyboard, a screen reader, magnification, or with motion, colour or sound working differently from the designer's assumptions.

• Contrast is calculated, not judged by eye. The text and background pairs of the design were measured against the standard's ratio rather than chosen by eye. A colour that did not reach it is not used for text: the brass tone of the design, for instance, is used for lines, marks and numbers, never for reading text on a light ground.
• Focus is visible. Every link, button, form field and menu shows a clear indicator when the keyboard reaches it. In the two places where the outline itself is replaced — a form field marks focus with a thicker brass line, a card passes the outline to the whole card — the replacement is at least as visible as the outline it stands in for.
• Skip to content is the first thing the keyboard reaches on every page, so you do not have to walk through the whole menu to get to the text.
• Motion switches itself off. If your system is set to reduce motion, the site's transitions do not run. Every duration on the site is expressed as a variable that setting controls; there is no animation with a hard-coded speed that could ignore it.
• The markup is semantic. One first-level heading per page, headings in order without skipped levels, real regions for the header, navigation, main content and footer, breadcrumbs as a labelled navigation list with the current page marked, and every form field tied to its own label.
• The menu does not leak. While the mobile menu panel is open, the rest of the page is made inert, so the keyboard cannot wander behind it.
• The map is not loaded until you ask. The office address, the telephone numbers and the office hours are on the contact page as text, so nothing about finding us depends on being able to use a map.
• Images carry meaning in text. Portraits are described by name, the firm's logo carries the firm's name, and marks that are decoration are hidden from screen readers instead of being read out.
• The layout reflows. On a narrow phone screen the page reads in one column with no sideways scrolling. Widths are set in proportions and in text units, not in fixed pixels, so the layout follows the text rather than boxing it in.

• No outside audit has been carried out. Everything above is the assessment of the people who built the site, checked in a browser and with a keyboard. It has not been reviewed by an independent accessibility specialist, and no formal conformance test has been run.
• The site is in English only. The firm works in English, Hebrew and Russian, but this website is not translated. A reader who needs Hebrew or Russian should write or call, and will be answered in that language.
• The map, once loaded, is not ours. It is Google's page inside a frame, and how it behaves for a screen reader is Google's to answer for. That is one of the reasons the address is printed as text next to it.
• The typefaces come from outside. If they do not arrive, the page falls back to a font already on your device: everything stays readable, but the type looks different from the design.
• The header and footer menus are built by a script. With scripting turned off, a short row of links to the main pages is shown instead, and the rest of the page reads normally.

If something here does not work for you, tell us what page it was, what you were trying to do and what happened instead. Write to Office@zuboklaw.co.il, or call the office on +972 3-376-11-73. Every message about accessibility is read and looked into, and we fix what we can fix.

Responsibility for accessibility at the firm rests with Gabriel Zubok, its founder and managing partner. Write to him at Office@zuboklaw.co.il, or reach him through the office on +972 3-376-11-73.

Write to Office@zuboklaw.co.il.