Accessibility Statement

What is digital accessibility?

An accessible website is one that allows people with disabilities to access its content and features without difficulty.

With an accessible website, for example, users can:

  • Browse using a text-to-speech and/or braille converter (commonly used by blind and visually impaired users).
  • Customise site display to suit their needs (enlarging or reducing text size, modifying colours, etc.).
  • Browse without a mouse (using a keyboard alone, a touchscreen, voice commands, or other adapted devices).

To achieve this, the website must comply with current accessibility standards when undergoing development and updates.

Accessibility Statement

The Musée du Louvre is committed to making its websites and mobile applications accessible in accordance with section 47 of French Act No. 2005-102 of 11 February 2005.

To this end, it has implemented and prioritised the following strategies and actionsfor improved accessibility of the Louvre collections website https://collections.louvre.fr/en/:

  • Nonconformities preventing some users from accessing information:
    • Set 1 – Resolving criteria 7.1 (except for the Map page), 7.3, 10.2, 12.11 and 13.10
  • Nonconformities with high user impact:
    • Set 2 – Resolving criteria 10.7, 11.10 (also resolves 11.11) and 8.6
  • Nonconformities with high user impact but simple implementation:
    • Set 3 – Resolving criterion 6.2 (tied to criteria 6.1 and 7.1)
    • Set 4 – Resolving criteria 3.2 (Homepage and See All Albums page), 5.6 (also resolves 5.7) and 9.2
  • Nonconformities with simple implementation:
    • Set 5 – Resolving criteria 3.3, 7.4, 8.9, 9.1 and 11.4
    • Set 6 – Resolving criteria 7.5 (tied to 7.1), 11.1 (tied to 7.1, also resolves 11.2) and 12.8 (tied to 7.1)
    • Set 7 – Resolving criterion 12.6 (tied to 9.2)
    • Set 9 – Resolving criteria 6.1, 9.3, 3.1 and 3.2 (Artwork and Album pages)
  • Nonconformities preventing some users from accessing information and requiring complex implementation:
    • Set 8 – Resolving criterion 7.1 (’Map’ page only)
  • Isolated nonconformities:
    • Set 10 – Resolving criteria 1.2, 10.11, 10.12 and 11.9
  • Compliant criteria that could be improved for an enhanced user experience:
    • Set 11 – Enhancing criteria 3.1, 3.3 (See All Albums page), 6.1 (Search page), 9.1 (See All Albums’ page) and 11.6
  • Updating the Terms of Use page to resolve criteria 8.9, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 and 12.6

This accessibility statement applies to the Musée du Louvre’s collections website https://collections.louvre.fr/en/.

Compliance Status

The Musée du Louvre’s collections website (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/) is not compliant with the general accessibility improvement guidelines, RGAA, version 4.1.2, due to the nonconformities set out in the ‘Test Results’.

Test Results

The compliance assessment carried out on 29 October 2024 by Atalan shows that 48% of the website is compliant with RGAA version 4.1.2.

Non-Accessible Content

Nonconformities

List of non-compliant criteria:

  • 1.2 Are all decorative images correctly ignored by assistive technologies?
  • 3.1 Is the information in each webpage conveyed by means other than colour alone?
  • 3.2 Is the contrast between text colour and background colour sufficiently high (except for specific cases)?
  • 3.3 Is there sufficient colour contrast in the interface components and graphic features used to convey information (except for specific cases)?
  • 5.6 Are the column and row headers of each data table correctly identified?
  • 5.7 Is the appropriate technique used to associate each data cell with its headers (except for specific cases)?
  • 6.1 Is each link explicit (except for specific cases)?
  • 6.2 Does every link on every webpage have a title?
  • 7.1 Are scripts, when necessary, compatible with assistive technologies?
  • 7.3 Are scripts operable using the keyboard and any pointing devise (except for specific cases)?
  • 7.4 When scripts cause a change in context, are users notified or able to initiate these changes?
  • 7.5 Are webpage status messages correctly conveyed to assistive technologies?
  • 8.6 Are webpage titles relevant?
  • 8.9 Is the use of tags solely for presentation purposes avoided in each webpage?
  • 9.1 Is the information in each webpage structured with the proper use of headings?
  • 9.2 Does each webpage have a consistent document structure (except for specific cases)?
  • 9.3 Are the lists in each webpage properly structured?
  • 10.2 Does visible informative content remain available when stylesheets are disabled?
  • 10.7 Does each item receiving focus have a visible indicator?
  • 10.11 Can the content of each webpage be displayed without loss of information or functionality, avoiding vertical scrolling for a window height of 256 px or horizontal scrolling for a window width of 320 px (except for specific cases)?
  • 10.12 Can users modify the text spacing properties of each webpage without loss of content or functionality (except for specific cases)?
  • 11.1 Does each form field have a label?
  • 11.2 Are all form field labels relevant (except for specific cases)?
  • 11.4 Are the field labels in each form correctly aligned next to their associated fields (except for specific cases)?
  • 11.9 Are form button labels relevant (except for specific cases)?
  • 11.10 Is the input validation for each form used appropriately (except for specific cases)?
  • 11.11 Is input validation accompanied, where possible, by suggestions for correcting input errors?
  • 12.6 Can content areas found in several webpages (header, main navigation, main content, footer and search engine) be accessed or avoided?
  • 12.8 Is the tab order of each webpage consistent?
  • 12.11 On each web page, can additional content that appears when hovering, focusing, or interacting with an interface component be accessed using the keyboard when necessary?
  • 13.10 On each web page, are functionalities that require a complex gesture also available with a simple gesture (except for specific cases)?

Exemptions

List of exempted content:

  • In P09 (‘Acquisitions Made In 2022’ Album), the downloadable CSV file was excluded from the RGAA tests and exempt from the assessment.
  • In P07 (Object) criterion 8.7. Content from various business software tools cannot indicate a language change within their content.

Date of the Accessibility Statement

The statement was drawn up on 21 November 2024.

Technologies used to build the website

  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript
  • WAI-ARIA 1.1

Testing environment

The content delivery checks were based on the following browser and screen reader combinations:

  • Firefox 131 and NVDA 2024.3
  • Firefox 131 and JAWS 2021
  • Chrome 131 and Android Talkback 14.2

Tools used to evaluate accessibility

  • Color Contrast Analyser
  • HeadingsMap
  • Firefox and Chrome developer tools
  • Web Developer (Firefox and Chrome extensions)

The following pages of the website were tested for conformity:

  1. Common components *: https://collections.louvre.fr/
  2. Home *: https://collections.louvre.fr/
  3. Contact *: https://collections.louvre.fr/contact
  4. Accessibility *: https://collections.louvre.fr/page/declaration_d_accessibilite
  5. Terms of Use*: https://collections.louvre.fr/page/cgu
  6. Advanced search: https://collections.louvre.fr/recherche-avancee
  7. Search for the term ‘Joconde’: https://collections.louvre.fr/recherche?q=Joconde
  8. Object : https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010003193
  9. See All Albums: https://collections.louvre.fr/albums
  10. ‘Acquisitions Made In 2022’ Album: https://collections.louvre.fr/album/10
  11. Interactive Map of the Museum: https://collections.louvre.fr/plan

Feedback and Contact

If you are unable to access content or a service, please contact the administrator of the Louvre collections website to receive an accessible alternative or to obtain the content in another form

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Right of Appeal

If you have reported an accessibility issue preventing you from accessing content or a service on the website and have not received a satisfactory response, you have the right of appeal: