Accessibility

RGAA Accessibility Statement about the website AFNOR Standardization

Accessibility Statement

AFNOR undertakes to make its websites, intranets, extranets and software packages accessible [and its mobile applications and digital street furniture] in accordance with Article 47 of Law No. 2005-102 of 11 February 2005.

To this end, it implements the following strategy and actions:

This accessibility statement applies to the Standardization : https://normalisation.afnor.org/

Compliance Status

The AFNOR Standardization website: https://normalisation.afnor.org/ is in partial compliance with the General Accessibility Improvement Framework (RGAA), version 4.1.2, due to the non-conformities and derogations listed below.

Test results

The compliance audit carried out by Avencod reveals that:

  • 53.95% of the criteria of the RGAA version 4.1.2 are met (global/legal rate).
  • The average compliance rate of the site is 76.16%.

Non-accessible content

Nonconformity

  • Images that carry information do not have a textual alternative.
  • Decorative images are not properly ignored by assistive technologies.
  • Presence of an image requiring a detailed description.
  • Presence of executives who do not have a title.
  • Presence of executives with irrelevant titles.
  • Presence of information given only by color.
  • Some texts are not sufficiently contrasted.
  • Some components do not have sufficiently contrasting colours.
  • Videos do not have audio description.
  • Videos are not controllable with a keyboard.
  • Links are not explicit enough.
  • Links do not have titles.
  • Scripted elements that are not compatible with assistive technologies.
  • Status messages does not have the role=alert.
  • Language changes are not indicated in the code.
  • Tags are used for presentation purposes.
  • The structure of the pages is irrelevant (lack of <main> tag to structure the main content).
  • Presentation attributes are present in the HTML.
  • Focusing is not visible on a large number of elements.
  • Additional content is not controllable by the user.
  • A form field does not have a visible label.
  • The form input control is not used appropriately on some pages.
  • Fields related to user data do not have an “autocomplete” attribute.
  • Content grouping areas cannot be easily reached or avoided.
  • Lack of a quick access link to the main content area.
  • The tab order is not consistent in some pages.
  • Office documents are not accessible.

Establishment of this accessibility statement

This declaration was made on 30 April 2025.

Technologies used for the creation of the site Standardization: https://normalisation.afnor.org/

  • HTML5
  • CSS
  • JAVASCRIPT
  • There are server-side technologies (such as NGINX, Apache) that we are not necessarily aware of when auditing (but are transparent to us on the front side).

Test environment

The content restitution checks were carried out on the basis of the combination provided by the RGAA 4.1.2 baseline, with the following versions:

  • Mozilla Firefox (mainly): 134.0.2 (64-bit) and NVDA 2021.3.5
  • Windows 11

Tools to assess accessibility

  • WCAG Color Contrast checker – V 3.8.4
  • HeadingsMap – V 4.8.7
  • RGAA Assistant – V 1.3.0
  • Stylus – V 1.5.51
  • Web Developer – V 3.0.1

Feedback and contact

If you are unable to access any content or service, you may contact the website to be directed to an accessible alternative or to obtain the content in another form.

Remedies

This procedure is to be used in the following case.

You have reported to the website manager a lack of accessibility that prevents you from accessing any of the content or services of the portal and you have not received a satisfactory response.