Accessibility Statement

Our Policy & Commitment

At LIK Fine Art, we are committed to accessibility, diversity, and inclusion. As part of that commitment, we are making efforts to ensure that our digital properties are accessible to all individuals, regardless of ability. In doing so, Peter Lik and LIK Fine Art have a goal to comply with applicable accessibility standards included in the W3C’s WCAG guidelines and regulations, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Digital Accessibility Statement

We are working to ensure our websites and online services are accessible for all, and are committed to following the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. We are also firmly dedicated to complying with regulations such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable web accessibility laws.

To accomplish this, we are working with multiple ADA compliance companies to leverage a digital accessibility platform and their years of experience to achieve and sustain conformance to accessibility standards. The digital accessibility platform is used to evaluate our digital properties in accordance with best practices and is supported by a diverse team of accessibility professionals, including users with disabilities.

Through our partnerships, Peter Lik and LIK Fine Art continue to develop a digital accessibility program and capabilities that we are designing, developing, and testing our websites and online services for conformance to accessibility standards.

Contact

We want to hear from you. If you would like further information about our accessibility efforts, have other accessibility questions or feedback, or encounter accessibility barriers on our digital properties, please contact: studio@lik.com

 

Screen-reader and keyboard navigation

Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers can read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site,they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so theycan browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements:

Screen-reader optimization: We run a process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images. It provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts embedded within the image using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments atany time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.These adjustments are compatible with popular screen readers such asJAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.

Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML and adds various behaviors using Java Script code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability tonavigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdownswith the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links usingthe Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using thearrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.

Additionally, keyboard users will find content-skip menus available at anytime by clicking Alt+2, or as the first element of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, not allowing the focus to drift outside. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.

Disability profiles supported on our website

Epilepsy Safe Profile: this profile enables people with epilepsy to safely use the website by eliminating the risk of seizures resulting from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.

Vision Impaired Profile: this profile adjusts the website so that it is accessible to the majority of visual impairments such as Degrading Eye sight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.

Cognitive Disability Profile: this profile provides various assistive featuresto help users with cognitive disabilities such as Autism, Dyslexia, CVA, andothers, to focus on the essential elements more easily.

ADHD Friendly Profile: this profile significantly reduces distractions and noise to help people with ADHD, and Neurodevelopmental disorders browse, read, and focus on the essential elements more easily.

Blind Users Profile (Screen-readers): this profile adjusts the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is installed on the blind user’s computer, and this site is compatible with it.

Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M”(menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) tojump to specific elements.

Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments

Font adjustments – users can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.

Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds with over seven different coloring options.

Animations – epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.

Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize essential elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.

Audio muting – users with hearing devices may experience headaches orother issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly.

Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.

Additional functions – we allow users to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions.

Assistive technology and browser compatibility

We aim to support as many browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS, and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and MAC users.