Digital accessibility

Enabling people with disabilities to access digital functionalities and information.

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

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

A fundamental right for people with disabilities

Effective use of digital technologycan ensure and promote the inclusion of a great many people with disabilities.

Digital accessibility can enhance the user experience for everyone, but it’s a necessity for some people with disabilities.

People can have multiple handicaps, which fall into different categories:

Motor or physical disabilities(such as back pain, herniated discs, paraplegia or amputation, and so on.)
Sensory disabilities(whether visual or auditory)
Mental disabilities(such as chronic depression, bipolar disorder, phobias or addiction, and so on.).
Intellectual disabilities(QI < 70)
Neurological and cognitive disabilities (such as brain damage, DYS disabilities, the autism spectrum, and so on)
Disabling diseases(diabète, such as diabetes, cancer, Crohn’s disease, or multiple sclerosis, and so on.)

An accessible site allows for example to:

Customise your display via the operating system and/or the 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 refreshable Braille display
Browse without using a mouse, using only the keyboard, contactors or a touchscreen
Access video or audio content using subtitles and/or transcriptions
And so on.