Accessibility
Access is part of the design
We hold this site to WCAG 2.2 AA, and we treat access the way the works treats glaze — part of the object, not a coating applied after.
Our commitment
Our aim is conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 at level AA, across every page of this site. We review against that standard as we build — with automated tooling and with manual keyboard and screen-reader passes — not as an audit bolted on at the end.
A table is only set when everyone can sit at it. The same is true of a storefront.
What is true of this site today
Concrete measures, present on these pages now — not aspirations.
Semantic structure. Pages are built on native landmarks — header, navigation, main, footer — with one ordered heading hierarchy per page, so a screen reader can move by region and by heading rather than line by line.
Described photography. Product imagery is photographic, and every photograph carries a descriptive text alternative that names the pattern — Mountain Stream, Longevity Peach — and what the picture shows. Decorative overlays and flourishes are hidden from assistive technology.
Bilingual labels with English equivalents. Chinese pattern and set names — 山水涧, 56头中餐具 — appear across the site as decorative accent rows. They are accents, not the record: every fact they carry is also present in English in the adjacent text, so no reader needs the Chinese to shop.
Keyboard access. Every interaction — navigation, the disclosure FAQ, and the set-finder, whose filter toggles are real buttons that announce their state with aria-pressed — is reachable and operable from the keyboard alone, in a predictable order.
Visible focus. Keyboard focus is always visible: a two-pixel jade outline, offset from the element, on every focusable control. We do not suppress focus styles for the sake of a cleaner screenshot; knowing where you are is part of the design.
A contrast-checked palette. The porcelain, ink and jade palette is checked against WCAG AA contrast ratios for text at every size it is used — on light grounds, over photographs behind a darkening gradient, and on the dark jade bands alike.
Restrained motion. Nothing on the site autoplays, loops or scrolls on its own. Movement is limited to brief hover feedback on cards and links, and motion honours the prefers-reduced-motion setting rather than overriding it.
Known limitations
The catalog photographs are showroom shots — sets composed and lit at the works, sometimes showing the larger display of the same decor, and noted on the product page when they do. They show the pattern faithfully, but a photograph cannot count pieces for you or convey weight in the hand. So the record is kept in text: every product page lists the exact contents of the set, piece by piece with quantities, alongside the piece count and the price.
Beyond that, we are a small team, and small teams miss things. Where the site falls short of the standard we hold it to, we would rather hear it plainly than not at all.
Tell us what resists you
If any part of this site is difficult or impossible for you to use, write to jadesfineporcelain@gmail.com and tell us what happened and what you were using — browser, assistive technology, or neither. We reply within two working days, and accessibility fixes are scheduled ahead of new work.
For anything else, the desk is at the contact page.