Accessibility

What is digital accessibility?

Digital accessibility refers to a set of rules and best practices covering functional, graphical, technical, and editorial aspects.

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

An accessible site allows users to, for example:

• Customize the display via the operating system and/or browser (increase or decrease font size, change typography, modify colors, stop animations, etc.).
• Navigate using assistive technologies such as screen readers or braille displays.
• Navigate without using a mouse, using only the keyboard, switches, or a touchscreen.
• Access videos and audio content with subtitles and/or transcriptions.
• And more.

Digital Accessibility Commitments

The Culture Department of the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg is committed to making its websites (internet, intranet, and extranet), mobile applications, software, and digital urban furniture accessible in accordance with Article 47 of Law No. 2005-102 of February 11, 2005.

Partial compliance statement with the RGAA

This declaration applies to the Culture site of the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the RGAA (General Accessibility Improvement Framework) – version 4.1.2, due to the non-conformities listed below.

Test results

The compliance audit with RGAA version 4.1.2, carried out in October 2025 by the company Ideance, reveals that within the sample:

• The overall compliance rate is 50.7%.
  This rate is obtained by dividing the number of compliant criteria by the number of applicable criteria.
• The average compliance rate is 63%.
  This rate is obtained by calculating the average of the compliance rates for each page.

Non-accessible content

Non-conformities

List of non-compliant criteria:

• 1.1 – Some images conveying information do not have a text alternative.
• 1.2 – Some decorative images are not ignored by assistive technologies.
• 1.9 – Some captions are not properly associated with their corresponding images.
• 3.2 – The contrast between text color and background color is not sufficiently high.
• 3.3 – The contrast between interface component colors or graphic elements conveying information and background color is not sufficiently high.
• 4.1 – Some videos lack a text transcript or audio description.
• 6.1 – Some links are not explicit.
• 6.2 – Some links have no label.
• 7.1 – Some scripts are not compatible with assistive technologies.
• 7.2 – Some script alternatives are not relevant.
• 7.3 – Some scripts cannot be controlled via keyboard or any pointing device.
• 7.5 – Some status messages are not correctly conveyed by assistive technologies.
• 8.6 – Some page titles are not relevant.
• 8.9 – Some tags are used solely for presentation purposes.
• 9.1 – Some information is not structured using appropriate headings.
• 9.2 – Page structures are inconsistent.
• 9.3 – Some lists are not properly structured.
• 10.5 – CSS declarations for background and font colors are not used correctly.
• 10.7 – Focus on interactive elements is not visible.
• 10.8 – Hidden content is not meant to be ignored by assistive technologies.
• 10.10 – Information is conveyed solely by shape, size, or position in an irrelevant way.
• 10.11 – Some content cannot be displayed without horizontal scrolling in a 320px-wide window.
• 10.12 – Text spacing properties cannot be adjusted without loss of content or functionality.
• 10.13 – Additional content appearing on focus or hover over an interface component is not controllable.
• 10.14 – Additional content displayed only via CSS styles cannot be made visible using keyboard or any pointing device.
• 11.2 – Some form field labels are not relevant.
• 11.4 – Labels and their associated form fields are not adjacent.
• 11.5 – Fields of the same type are not grouped.
• 11.6 – Groups of fields of the same type do not have a legend.
• 11.10 – Input controls are not used appropriately.
• 12.6 – Grouped content areas present on multiple pages (header, main navigation, main content, footer, and search engine) cannot be accessed or bypassed.
• 12.8 – The tab order is not consistent.
• 13.3 – Downloadable office documents do not have accessible versions.
• 13.10 – Features usable or available through complex gestures are not also available through simple gestures.

Additional remarks

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 explained below, RGAA criterion 8.2, which relates to this point, has been marked as compliant.

Officially, WCAG criterion 4.1.1, which corresponds to RGAA criterion 8.2, has been removed from WCAG 2.2 and should be considered as always satisfied under WCAG 2.1 and the European standard EN 301 549.

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

Third-party elements not audited

• Cookie manager
  The third-party cookie manager "Tarteaucitron" was not subject to a full and detailed audit.
  However, it was verified that its presence does not prevent the use or navigation of the rest of the site.
• Video player
  The "YouTube" video player was not subject to a full and detailed audit.
  However, it was verified that it can be used properly with various assistive technologies.
• Spam protection module
  A spam protection manager, "Friendly Captcha", was detected in the site’s forms.
  Its presence did not prevent form validation during our tests.

Declaration date

This declaration was established on 10/08/2025.

Technologies used to build the website

• HTML5
• SVG
• ARIA
• CSS
• JavaScript

Testing environment

The tests were conducted using the following combinations of web browser and screen reader:

• Firefox 143.0.4 and NVDA 2025.3 on Windows 11
• Firefox 0.4 and JAWS 2024 on Windows 11
• Safari and VoiceOver on macOS 26.0.1
• Safari and VoiceOver on iOS 0.1

Tools used to assess accessibility

• Colour Contrast Analyser
• Contrast Finder
• Firefox Developer Tools
• Web Developer (Firefox extension)
• Headingsmap (Firefox extension)
• Stylus (Firefox extension)

Pages of the website that were subject to the compliance check

These pages are from the French version of the website.

• Accueil
• Contact
• Mentions légales
• Accessibilité
• Agenda
• Page évènement
• Page actualité
• Liste de lieux
• Les lieux de spectacle
• Page Itinéraire
• Page Strasculture

Feedback and Contact

If you are unable to access any content or service on this site, you can contact us through one of the following means by describing your problem:

• Send us a message via our contact form.
• Write to us at the email address: DirectionDeLaCulture-Communication@strasbourg.eu.
• Call us at +33 3 68 98 50 00 (ask for the Culture Department).
• Write to us by postal mail at the following address:
  Direction of Culture – Communication Unit
  City and Eurometropolis of Strasbourg
  1 Parc de l’Étoile
  67076 STRASBOURG

We commit to responding within 15 working days at the latest.

Recourse Options

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

Then you have the option to:

Contact Arcom

To report one or more breaches of digital accessibility regulations, please visit the "Report a problem with digital accessibility" page on the Arcom website.

Contact the Defender of Rights

To assert your rights regarding accessibility defects encountered:

• Contact the delegate of your region via l'the Defender of Rights delegate directory.
• Fill out the Defender of Rights complaint form by selecting the topics "I am a victim of discrimination," then "Goods and private services," and finally "Disability."
• Or send a free postal letter (no stamp required) to the following address:
  Défenseur des droits
  Libre réponse 71120
  75342 Paris CEDEX 07