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Accessible Design

Last update: 04-04-2006

This site employs many features to make information more accessible:

• All images have relevant text alternates (ALT attributes).
• All animations can be stopped (stop button on their bottom right corner).
• Pages are organised to be fully functional, even with javascript turned off.
• All text uses relative font sizes so they can be enlarged or reduced using the text size options available in visual browsers.
• This website can be navigated without the use of a mouse (see shortcut keys below).
• This website provides a hidden navigation enabled for some assistive technologies at the top of each page.
• All pages use flexible page formats so they can be automatically resized for different window sizes and screen resolutions.
• Page formatting is done with CSS not tables to ensure that the semantic structure of the information has been preserved.
• All pages are designed with separate cascading style sheets, so they can be replaced by user-defined style sheets.
• This site follows World Wide Web and French Government accessibility guidelines (référentiel ADAE).

Shortcut keys

Last update: 04-04-2006

The site can be used without a mouse. The following shortcut keys will take you to commonly used pages such as the home page:

 

Shortcut keys

AccessKey	Function
1	Navigate to Home page.
2	Navigate to Newsflash.
3	Navigate to Sitemap.
R	Navigate to Search page.
5	Navigate to FAQ page.
6	Navigate to Help page.
7	Navigate to Contact us page.
M	Jump to the main navigation of the page
S	Jump to the main content of the current page

The procedure for using shortcut varies depending on which web browser you view the site with. The following table shows the AccessKey combinations for a range of popular web browsers:

AccessKey combinations for popular platforms web browsers.

Operating System	Browser	AccessKey Combination
PC Windows	Internet Explorer 4 and above	ALT + AccessKey (to focus the link) + ENTER to activate
PC Windows	Mozilla	ALT + AccessKey
PC Windows	Netscape 6 and above	ALT + AccessKey
PC Windows	Opera 7	SHIFT + ESC, followed by AccessKey
MAC OS 9	Internet Explorer 4 and 4.5	Not supported
MAC OS 9	Mozilla	Not supported
MAC OS 9	Netscape 4	Not supported
MAC OS 9	Opera	Not supported
MAC OS X	Internet Explorer 5 and 5.1	CONTROL + AccessKey * * some systems require CONTROL + COMMAND + AccessKey
MAC OS X	Mozilla	Not supported
MAC OS X	Netscape 6 and above	CONTROL + AccessKey
MAC OS X	Opera	Not supported
MAC OS X	Safari	Not supported

[Translate to English version:] Documents au format PDF

Last update: 04-04-2006

[Translate to English version:] Vous trouverez dans le site des documents téléchargeables au format PDF.

Si vous n'avez pas Acrobat reader, vous pouvez le télécharger sur le site d'adobe : télécharger Acrobat Reader.

Vous pouvez également transformer les documents PDF en pages HTML classiques en utilisant le moteur de conversion en ligne d'Adobe; il vous faut alors copier l'adresse du lien vers le fichier en PDF et la coller dans le champs prévu à cet effet. Cet outil est disponible à l'adresse suivante : l'outil de conversion en ligne d'Adobe. A noter que suivant la complexité du document PDF, la conversion obtenue peut donner un résultat plus ou moins satisfaisant.