Definition

This website is a site that is fully accessible to disabled people whatever their disability (visual, motor or intellectual). It has been designed and developed respecting the recommendations of the WCAG 1.0/2.0 of the W3C and is in the process of receiving Accessiweb and Euracert certification.

Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the W3C and inventor of the World Wide Web, defined Web accessibility as follows :

"Making the Web and its services accessible means making it available to all individuals, whatever their hardware or software, their network infrastructure, their mother tongue, their culture, their geographical situation or their physical or mental capacity"

A website is considered to be accessible when it is possible for any person to have access in an equal manner, whatever browser, screen and technical aid is used, possible disability of the internet user as well as their intellectual level and their capacity of learning about how to use a computer. In addition, the equal opportunities law for disabled people voted on 3 February 2005 obliges all public sector websites to become accessible.

A private sector company, the Group is not subjected to this obligation but makes it a moral duty to make its site accessible to all. This approach is perfectly in line with the Chèque Déjeuner Group’s policy of open-mindedness by always putting men and women and their well-being at the centre of its concerns.

In order to carry out this work, the Group was assisted by a specialist agency and did not hesitate to pay for the training costs for its suppliers and partners.

This website is the result of real teamwork as 2 of the 34 staff member portraits were translated into sign language by Websourd, a company supported by the Chèque Déjeuner Group.

Navigation

Navigation is compatible with the special equipment used by disabled people, notably text-to-speech software, refreshable Braille displays and text enlargement programmes.

This site proposes numerous functions that ease navigation :

• optimised ergonomics and navigation,
• keyboard shortcuts,
• accessibility of contents without JavaScript or Flash,
• adapted editorial content,
• alternative versions for non-accessible files.

Graphic charter

The graphic charter has been defined and designed taking into account the accessibility parameters. The problems of contrasts and superimposed colours have been studied so that partially-sighted people do not endure any reading difficulties.

Style sheets

This site is equipped with alternative style sheets :

• classic mode: presentation style by default with black text on a light background,
• partially-sighted mode: presentation style with no layout so as to make optimum use of technical aids (text readers...) or of your own personal parameters,
• contrasted mode: presentation style with no layout so as to make optimum use of technical aids (text readers...) or of your own personal parameters with white text on a black background.

Text size

This site was designed and developed in a way that allows you to enlarge the size of the text according to your needs.

To change the size of the text :

• With different navigators: [Ctrl] + mouse wheel.
• Internet Explorer: go to View: Size of text and choose.
• Mozilla, Firefox or Netscape: do [Ctrl] + [+] to increase size and [Ctrl] + [-] to reduce size.
• Opera: press on the + or – button of the numerical keypad. Or go into View: Zoom and choose.

Navigation help

You can use the following keyboard shortcuts:
The “Tab” key allows you to go from link to link through the page.

Keyboard shortcuts

• Key 1: Access to the home page
• Key 2: Access to text at the top of the page
• Key 3: Access to the site map
• Key 4: Access to the search field
• Key 5: Access to the main menu at the top of the page
• Key 6: Access to the site rules on accessibility
• Key 7: Access to the contact page

Here are the key combinations to use depending on your browser: Warning: Use the keys of the main keyboard and not those of the numerical keypad.

• Internet Explorer Windows: Caps Lock + Alt and [key number], then Enter
• Mozilla, Netscape, FireFox Windows: Shift + Alt and [key number]
• Opera 7 Windows, Macintosh, Linux: Esc + Shift and [key number]
• Safari 1.3 Macintosh: Ctrl + Shift and [key number]
• Mozilla, Netscape Macintosh: Ctrl and [key number]
• Galeon, Mozilla, FireFox, Linux: Alt and [key number]

Editorial

The editorial content of the site has been studied to enable everyone to understand its contents more easily.

Multimedia

This site provides a text equivalent for all non-text elements. When your cursor passes over a visual, a text describes the content of this element. The same information is accessible to speech synthesis systems.

We use very little JavaScript code and when it is used, an alternative is proposed.

The videos and multimedia animation are made accessible thanks to the following elements:

• subtitles;
• an audio description of the contents;
• a text version that reproduces the contents and the voices in the video;
• a translation into sign language.

List of the abbreviations and acronyms used in the site

The acronym and abbreviation tags are designed so that when the mouse cursor is held over them, their meaning appears in a box. The same information is accessible to speech synthesis systems.