Accessibility

What is digital accessibility?

Digital accessibility is a set of rules and best practices covering the functional, graphical, technical and editorial aspects of digital media.

By following these rules, digital media (such as websites, mobile apps and PDF documents) will be accessible to disabled persons..

With an accessible website you may, for example, be able to :

• Customise your display via the operating system and/or browser (to increase or decrease the font size, change typography, change colours, stop animations, and so on)
• Browse using assistance technology, such as speech synthesis or a Braille display
• Browse without using a mouse, using only the keyboard, switches or a touchscreen
• Access video or audio content using subtitles and/or transcriptions
• Etc.

Digital accessibility commitments

INRIA undertakes to make its websites (internet, intranet and extranet), mobile apps, software packages and digital urban furniture accessible in accordance with Article 47 of French Law 2005-102 of 11 February 2005.

To this end, we are implementing the strategy and measures set out in the Multiannual Accessibility Plan.

Full RGAA compliance statement

This statement concerns the "simulation-accessibilite.inria.fr" website.

Compliance status

This website complies with Version 4.1.2 of the RRGAA (French General Accessibility Improvement Framework).

Audit results

An audit carried out in November 2024 by the Ideance consulting firm and an expert who was not involved in the design or development of this website, revealed that the sample content is 100% compliant with RGAA Version 4.1.2.

Because this website aims to raise awareness and provide demonstrations, certain non-compliant developments have been incorporated deliberately in order to highlight accessibility issues. These nonconformities were not taken into account in determining the compliance rate. They are nevertheless explained below.

Non-accessible content intended for demonstration purposes

• On the Colour Blindness page, certain colours contain information for demonstration purposes in the example of a non-compliant graphic.
• The Visual Impairment page deliberately lacks colour contrast in certain places to highlight the reading difficulties this can cause. For the same reason, the text contains a paragraph with line-spacing issues.
• When the simulation is enabled on the Hearing Impairment page, the video has no subtitles or text transcriptions. These are present, however, when the simulation is turned off.
• On the Physical Disabilitypage, a “Read more” button is deliberately inaccessible via the keyboard, again for demonstration purposes. This button is not intended to display useful information.

Additional remarks

Validity of the generated source code

The source code generated for the web pages may not be entirely valid, depending on the specified document type.

However, for the reasons mentioned below, RGAA Criterion 8.2 associated with this point has been indicated as compliant.

Officially, Criterion 4.1.1 of the WCAG relating to this RGAA Criterion 8.2 has been deleted from WCAG 2.2 and should always be deemed as having been met with regard to WCAG 2.1 and the European Standard EN 301 549.

In practice, this criterion no longer brings any added benefit to disabled persons in terms of accessibility. Possible accessibility issues arising from an invalid generated source code are covered by other RGAA criteria.

Drafting this statement

This statement was drawn up by Ideance on 15 November 2024.

Technology used to create the site

• HTML5
• SVG
• ARIA
• CSS
• JavaScript

Audit environment

The tests were carried out using the following web browser and screen reader combinations :

• Firefox 132 - NVDA 2024.4.1 under Windows 11
• Firefox 132 - JAWS 2024 under Windows 11
• Safari et VoiceOver under macOS Sequoia 15.1
• Safari et VoiceOver under iOS 18.1
• Chrome 130 et TalkBack 15 under Android

Accessibility assessment tools

• Colour Contrast Analyser
• Contrast Finder
• Firefox development tools
• Web Developer (Firefox extension)

Pages of the website concerned by the compliance checks

• Homepage
• Colour Blindness
• Visual Impairment
• Blindness
• Hearing Impairment
• Physical Disability
• Dyslexia
• Easy to Read and Understand (ERU) method
• Legal Notice

Feedback and contact

Inria is committed to implementing all measures necessary in order to provide access - within a reasonable time frame - to any information or features persons with disabilities may be looking for, irrespective of whether or not the content is exempted.

IShould you encounter any difficulties, please contact Inria by email at contact-accessibilite-numerique@inria.fr in order to seek assistance (accessible alternative, information and content provided in a different format).

Remedies

1. You have identified one or more breaches of digital accessibility regulations on this website (lack of accessibility, absence of mandatory statements, etc.).
2. You have contacted us to bring this to our attention.
3. You have not received a satisfactory response.

In this case your options are:

Contact Arcom

To report one or more breaches of the digital accessibility regulations, please use the contact form on the Arcom website.

Refer the matter to the Defender of Rights

To assert your rights in terms of the accessibility issues you have encountered :

• Either contact your regional representative whose name can be found in the Defender of Rights representatives directory.
• Or fill in the Defender of Rights claim form choosing the topics “I’m a victim of discrimination”, then “Private goods and services” and finally “Disability”.
• Or send a letter by freepost (no stamp required) to the following address:
  Défenseur des droits
  Libre réponse 71120
  75342 Paris CEDEX 07, France