Accessibility: partially compliant

This page aims to present our accessibility policy and define the general accessibility level observed on the website, in accordance with the applicable protocols and regulations.

What is digital accessibility?

Digital accessibility is a set of standards and best practices covering functional, graphic, technical and editorial aspects.

Digital media (websites, mobile applications, PDF files, etc.) must adhere to particular standards and best practices in order to be accessible by people with disabilities.

For example, an accessible website allows users to:

  • Customize its display via the operating system and/or browser (enlarge or shrink characters, change typography, modify colours, turn off animations, etc.).
  • Browse using assistive technologies such as text-to-speech or Braille.
  • Navigate without having to use a mouse, just a keyboard, switches or a touchscreen.
  • Watch videos and audio content with subtitles and/or transcriptions.
  • And more.

Accessibility Policy

Département de la Manche is committed to make its websites (Internet, intranet, and extranet), its software packages, mobile applications and urban digital infrastructure accessible in accordance with article 47 of French law no. 2005-102 of 11 February 2005.

RGAA partial compliance declaration

This declaration applies to the https://tatihou.manche.fr website.

Compliance Status

The website is partially with RGAA version 4.1.2 (and therefore WCAG 2.1) as a result of the non-conformities listed below.

Test Results

The audit of compliance with RGAA version 4.1.2 performed by Ideance in July 2025 on a sample of the website’s pages reveals that:

  • The global compliance rate is 75 %.
    Calculated by dividing the number of compliant criteria by the number of applicable criteria.
  • The average compliance rate is 90,5 %.
    Calculated by averaging the compliance rates for each page.

Non-accessible Contents

Non-conformities

List of non-compliant criteria :

  • 1.1 – A few images conveying information do not have an alternative text description.
  • 1.2 – A few decorative images are not ignored by assistive technologies.
  • 2.2 – Some/Certain/A few iframe titles are irrelevant.
  • 3.2 – Some contrasts between text and background colour are not high enough.
  • 3.3 – Some contrasts between interface components or graphical objects’ colour and their background colour are not high enough.
  • 4.7 – A few videos cannot be clearly identified.
  • 4.13 – A few videos or time-based media are not compatible with assistive technologies.
  • 6.1 – A few links are not explicit.
  • 7.1 – A few scripts are not compatible with assistive technologies.
  • 8.6 – A few page titles are irrelevant.
  • 8.7 – A few language changes are not indicated in the source code.
  • 8.9 – Some semantic elements are used for presentational effect.
  • 9.1 – A few contents are not properly structured using heading elements.
  • 9.3 – Some lists are not properly structured.
  • 10.7 – A few interactive elements do not have a visible focus indicator.
  • 11.11 – Input assistance does not provide suggestions to help correct errors.
  • 11.13 – A few input purposes cannot be deducted and thus used to automatically complete forms with user data.
  • 12.7 – Some pages of this website provide a skip link to the main content that does not work.
  • 12.8 – Tab order is inconsistent.
  • 13.3 – The downloadable documents do not have an accessible version.

Contents not subject to accessibility obligations

The following tools have been exempted:

  • “Tarte au citron” cookies consent manager,
  • OpenStreetMap interactive map,
  • ViewSurf player video.

They were not fully audited during the process. However, it has been checked their presence does not have an impact on either use or consultation of the website.

Additional notes

Validity of the generated source code

The generated source code of the site pages is not fully valid according to the specified document type.

However, for the reasons mentioned below, the RGAA criterion 8.2 corresponding to this point has been marked as compliant.

Officially, WCAG criterion 4.1.1 relating to this RGAA criterion 8.2 has been removed from WCAG 2.2 and must be considered as still satisfied with regard to WCAG 2.1 as well as the European standard EN 301 549.

In practice, this criterion no longer has any benefit for accessibility for people with disabilities. Any accessibility problems arising from the invalidity of the generated source code are covered by other RGAA criteria.

Establishment of this Declaration

This declaration has been established on July 28th, 2025.

Technologies used for the website creation

  • HTML5,
  • SVG,
  • ARIA,
  • CSS,
  • JavaScript.

Test environment

The webpage tests have been performed through the combinations of the following browser and screen reader:

  • Firefox 140 and NVDA 2025 on Windows 11
  • Firefox 140 and JAWS 2025 on Windows 11
  • Safari and VoiceOver on macOS 15.5
  • Safari and VoiceOver on iOS 18.5

Accessibility checking tools

  • Colour Contrast Analyser
  • Contrast Finder
  • Firefox development tools
  • Web Developer (browser extension)

Webpages subject to the compliance audit

Improvement approach

The Département de la Manche is taking steps to improve digital accessibility, as detailed below:

  • Part of the Département de la Manche teams attended a digital accessibility awareness session in March 2024 and in December 2024.
  • The teams in charge of developing the Département de la Manche’s websites attended a “Designing and developing an accessible website” training session (two days) in June 2024.
  • Several websites have already been audited by Ideance.
  • Corrective actions identified during these audits are in progress.

Feedback & Contact

If you don’t manage to access a content or service on this website, you can contact us by any of the following means, describing your problem:

  • Send us a message through our contact form.
  • Call us to +33 233 055 550.
  • Write us to:
    Département de la Manche, Route de Candol, 50550 Saint-Lô CEDEX

Avenues of recourse

  1. You have identified one or more violations of digital accessibility regulations on this website (presence of accessibility issues, absence of reporting obligations, etc.).
  2. You have reached out to us to report these issues.
  3. You have not received an adequate response.

In this situation, you have several options:

Contact Arcom

To report one or more violations of digital accessibility regulations, go to the “Report a digital service accessibility problem” page on the Arcom website.

Reach Out to the Defender of Rights

To exercise your rights with regard to accessibility issues you may have encountered:

  • You can contact the regional delegate through the Defender of Rights’ Delegates Directory.
  • Alternatively, fill out the Defender of Rights complaint form, selecting “I am a victim of discrimination,” followed by “Private goods and services,” and then “Disability.”
  • Or send a free-of-charge letter (no stamp necessary) by post to the following address:
    Défenseur des droits
    Free answer 71120
    75342 Paris CEDEX 07