navigation and accessibility assistance
Keyboard shortcuts
The following keyboard shortcuts have been integrated for use throughout the festival web site:
"1" takes you to the "home page";
"2" takes you to the "site plan";
"3" takes you to the "Navigation and Accessibility Assistance" page;
"4" takes you to the "Contact" page;
"r" selects the search engine keyword field;
"n" gives you direct access to the main site navigation (only in text mode or when the css is deactivated);
"k" lets you skip the entire navigation and go to the main page content (only in text mode or when the css
is deactivated);
The key combinations to validate these shortcuts vary between browsers, so we have listed the steps to
activate these keyboard shortcuts in the most common browsers as follows:
Internet Windows: Alt+Shift and [Keyboard shortcut], then Enter;
Mozilla, Netscape, K-Meleon, Firefox for Windows: Alt+Shift and [Keyboard shortcut];
Opera 7 for Windows, Macintosh, Linux: Shift+Esc and [Keyboard shortcut];
Safari 1.2 for Macintosh: Ctrl and [Keyboard shortcut];
Mozilla, Netscape for Macintosh: Ctrl and [Keyboard shortcut];
Galeon, Mozilla Firefox for Linux: Alt and [Keyboard shortcut];
Netscape 4, Camino, Galeon, Konqueror, Omniweb, Safari before version 1.2 and Opera Windows for Linux before version 7 do not support the keyboard shortcuts.
Browser compatibility
The site has been developed in compliance with the Internet technical standards established by the W3Cconsortium and with the accessibility standards defined in guidelines of the Electronic Administration
Development Agency (ADAE) and the WAI standards established by the W3C consortium.
As a result, the site has been optimised for the latest generation of browsers while remaining accessible for
older browsers.
The use of the following browsers is recommended:
On Macintosh OS 10: Opera, Safari, Mozilla Firefox;
On Windows: Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer 6 and higher versions;
On Linux: Mozilla Firefox, Opera.
Download documents
Some of the download documents are presented at least in an accessible format (HTML, plain text, RTF, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
Nevertheless, download documents can also be found in PDF (Portable Document Format) without a directly
associated accessible version.
If you do not have Acrobat Reader, you can download it free of charge from the Adobe site: download Acrobat Reader. Alternatively, you can transform the PDF documents into classic HTML by using the online Adobe converter. In order to do this, copy the address of the link to the PDF file and paste it into the field intended for
this purpose on the online Adobe conversion tool.
Navigation
Major sections of the site
The main links are located on the main menu, which appears invariably at the start of the page. These links
provide direct access to the main sections of the site.
Navigation within a page
Quick access links:
Concealed links have been placed just before the logo to provide access to the main navigation block or direct
access to the content.
These links have been set up so as to be usable on most technical aids such as voice synthesisers or Braille pages. Note also that these links appear as soon as the main site formatting is deactivated by using the browser options.
Customising the information layout
How can I increase the font size?Internet Explorer: go to View menu/Text Size and select the desired size or press CTRL and + simultaneously
to increase the size and CTRL and - to decrease it.
Mozilla: press the following keys simultaneously:
CTRL and + to increase font size;
CTRL and - to decrease font size:
CTRL and 0 to return to the original size.
Applying a custom style sheet
The appearance of this site can be specified using alternative style sheets defined by the user.
An alternative style sheet can be defined from the View menu of browsers which support alternative styles:
Firefox, Mozilla: View menu/Page Style;
Opera 7: Style menu;
Internet Explorer 6.0: Tools menu/Internet Options/General tab/Accessibility.
Printing pages
All pages on this site are printable by clicking on the Print icon of your browser or on the "Print this Page"
['imprimer la page'] button at the bottom of the pages. This will adjust the pages for printout.
Accessibility
Identical access for all; universal access to the information
Allowing access for everybody to the information and services in the ---------- web site is a normal act of
digital communication. This universal access, also called "digital accessibility", allows access to the
information irrespective of your type of access to the web. In particular, it allows disabled persons to use
all the information, but also just to use the online services. This enables blind people to read the information,
quadriplegics to use their special equipment (voice commands, pipette aids, etc.) to navigate normally around the site, but also allows partially sighted people to increase the font size from their keyboards and colour blind
people to avoid confusion arising from the colours used, etc.
In this way, the universal nature of the Internet allows everyone to customise his or her access to the
information, lets older people enjoy independent access to information and enables the more mobile sections of the population to keep informed at all times wherever they are.
How does accessibility work?
Putting an accessible web site online is above all a specific consideration at the site planning stage and
requires motivation on the part of the teams who update the contents on an everyday basis. However, it also
involves the will to comply with national and international standards which define the digital accessibility and
quality of web interfaces.
Complying with these standards today involves conforming to the accessibility guidelines of the Electronic
Administration Development Agency (ADAE). These guidelines comprise 92 criteria divided between 3 levels.
The first level, corresponding to guaranteed accessibility, has 55 criteria, which in turn are distributed in
13 chapters. Respect for accessibility therefore means ensuring that every page put online and all published
content strictly complies with all of these criteria.
Our strict compliance with the standards means that we allow everyone to consult the site with their own equipment, their own individual identity or even their own habits. Accordingly, the information is accessible regardless of the browser which you use. Blind persons can also use technical aids in the form of software which reads the contents and the information on the screen, and can listen to it through a voice synthesiser or read the texts by means of a Braille page. Efforts have also been made to edit the texts with a view to improving their accessibility and readability.
Ensuring accessibility does not involve a large number of processes or any special uploading, but entails work on the quality of identical content availability for all.
A citizen approach
Apart from being a human and quality-oriented approach, publishing an accessible website is also a response to a legal obligation. Article 47 of the Equal Rights and Opportunities, Participation and Citizenship of Disabled
Persons Act of 11 February 2005 stipulates:
"The online publicity services of State departments, local government and the public institutions which depend on them must be accessible to disabled persons."
A number of European directives also require compliance with free access to information for everyone without
discrimination, including digital access.
However, apart from meeting legal requirements, respect for all persons and guaranteed access to information form part of the logic of environmental quality and sustainable development. This commitment involves treating
information and access to services as a common good, and hence available to all.
To find out more about accessibility
To discover and understand the arcane secrets of accessibility in a few lessons:
www.la-grange.net/accessibilite/
Read Article 47 of the law of 11 February 2005 in full:
www.legifrance.gouv.fr
W3C/WAI: the international accessibility initiative (site in English).
www.w3.org/WAI/
AccessiWeb Association,
a site which brings together all the resources needed for a good understanding of web accessibility in France.
www.accessiweb.org
If you find an error or an omission on any pages in this site or if you encounter any difficulty, do not
hesitate to let us know by means of the contact form.
