Accessibility

This page presents our commitments to digital accessibility and defines the level of compliance of this website with current regulations and standards.

Table of contents

  1. What is digital accessibility?
  2. Digital accessibility commitments
  3. Declaration of non-compliance with the RGAA

What is digital accessibility?

Digital accessibility is a set of rules and best practices that cover functional, graphic, technical, and editorial aspects.

Following these rules and best practices ensures that digital media (websites, mobile applications, PDF documents, etc.) are accessible to people with disabilities.

An accessible website allows, for example:

  • Personalizing the display via the operating system and/or the browser (enlarging or reducing text size, changing fonts, modifying colors, stopping animations, etc.).
  • Navigating with assistive technologies such as screen readers or braille displays.
  • Navigating without using a mouse, with the keyboard only, with switches, or via a touchscreen.
  • Accessing videos and audio content with subtitles and/or transcripts.
  • Etc.

Digital accessibility commitments

France Médias Monde is committed to making its websites (internet, intranet, and extranet), mobile applications, business software, and digital street furniture accessible in accordance with the Article 47 of Law No. 2005-102 of February 11, 2005 (in French).

To this end, it implements the strategy and actions described in the document "2025–2027 multi-year accessibility plan and action plan (in French)".

To achieve the best possible result, accessibility is considered by all teams (functional and graphic design, development, content contribution, etc.) throughout the development and maintenance of websites and mobile applications.

Declaration of non-compliance with the RGAA

This declaration applies to the "francaisfacile.rfi.fr" website.

Compliance status

This website is not compliant with the General Accessibility Improvement Framework (in French) – version 4.1.2 due to the non-compliances listed below.

Test results

The initial RGAA version 4.1.2 compliance audit carried out in July 2025 by Ideance, followed by a counter-audit in December 2025, revealed that, on the sample:

  • The overall compliance rate is 40%. This rate is calculated by dividing the number of compliant criteria by the number of applicable criteria.
  • The average compliance rate is 55.8%. This rate is calculated by averaging the compliance rates of each page.

Non-accessible content

Non-compliances

List of non-compliant criteria:

  • 1.2 - Decorative images are not ignored by assistive technologies.
  • 2.1 - Some iframes have no title.
  • 3.1 - Information is conveyed by color alone.
  • 3.2 - Insufficient contrast between text color and background color.
  • 3.3 - Insufficient contrast between interface component colors or graphic elements conveying information and background color.
  • 4.2 - Video transcripts or audio descriptions are not relevant.
  • 4.7 - Media are not clearly identifiable.
  • 4.13 - Videos and non-temporal media are not compatible with assistive technologies.
  • 6.1 - Some links are not explicit.
  • 6.2 - Some links have no label.
  • 7.1 - Scripts are not compatible with assistive technologies.
  • 7.3 - Scripts cannot be controlled with the keyboard or any pointing device.
  • 7.5 - Status messages are not correctly announced by assistive technologies.
  • 8.6 - Page titles are not relevant.
  • 8.9 - Tags are used for presentation purposes only.
  • 9.1 - Information is not structured using appropriate headings.
  • 9.2 - Page structure is inconsistent.
  • 9.3 - Lists are not correctly structured.
  • 9.4 - Quotes are not properly marked up.
  • 10.1 - Stylesheets are not used to control presentation.
  • 10.2 - Visible content containing information is missing when stylesheets are disabled.
  • 10.3 - Information is not understandable when stylesheets are disabled.
  • 10.6 - Links whose nature is not obvious are not visually distinguishable from surrounding text.
  • 10.7 - Focus is not visible on interactive elements.
  • 10.8 - Hidden content is not intended to be ignored by assistive technologies.
  • 10.10 - Information is conveyed by shape, size, or position alone in a non-relevant way.
  • 10.11 - Content cannot be presented without horizontal scrolling for a window width of 320px.
  • 10.12 - Text spacing properties cannot be overridden without loss of content or functionality.
  • 10.13 - Additional content appearing on focus or hover is not controllable.
  • 12.1 - The site does not provide at least two different navigation systems.
  • 12.8 - Tab order is inconsistent.
  • 13.3 - Downloadable office documents do not have an accessible version.
  • 13.10 - Features usable or available only through complex gestures.

Validity of the generated source code

The generated source code of the site’s pages is not fully valid according to the specified document type.

However, for the reasons stated below, RGAA criterion 8.2 corresponding to this point was marked as compliant.

Officially, WCAG criterion 4.1.1 related to RGAA criterion 8.2 has been removed from WCAG 2.2 and should still be considered satisfied with regard to WCAG 2.1 and the European standard EN 301 549.

In practice, this criterion no longer provides any benefit for accessibility for people with disabilities. Any accessibility issues arising from invalid source code are covered by other RGAA criteria.

Preparation of this declaration

This declaration was prepared on 12/09/2025.

Technologies used to build the site

  • HTML5
  • SVG
  • ARIA
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

Test environment

Tests were carried out with the following combinations of web browser and screen reader:

  • Firefox 139 andt NVDA 2025.1 on Windows 11
  • Firefox 139 and JAWS 2024 on Windows 11
  • Safari and VoiceOver on macOS 15.5
  • Safari and VoiceOver on iOS 18.5

Tools used to assess accessibility

  • Colour Contrast Analyser
  • Contrast Finder
  • Firefox web developers tools
  • Web Developer (extension Firefox)
  • Stylus (extension Firefox)

Pages audited for compliance

The Didomi cookie modal was not audited: it would require its own audit and accessibility statement. However, it was verified that it does not block access to the site.

The content of the iframe on the Exercise page was not audited: this iframe points to a URL outside the audited site and is therefore out of scope. It should be audited and have its own accessibility statement.

Feedback and contact

If you are unable to access content or a service on this site, you can contact us using one of the following methods and describe your issue:

We are committed to responding within 15 days at the latest.

Appeal procedures

  1. You have identified one or more breaches of digital accessibility regulations on this website (accessibility defects, missing mandatory declarations, etc.).
  2. You have contacted us to inform us.
  3. You have not received a satisfactory response.

You can then:

Contact the Arcom

To report one or more breaches of digital accessibility regulations, go to the "Signaler un problème d'accessibilité d'un service numérique" (in French) page on the Arcom website.

Contact the Defender of rights

To assert your rights regarding accessibility issues you have encountered: