This website has been designed, among other things, to be easily accessible to blinds, visually impaired and physically handicapped persons.
The European Commission places a great importance on making all online electronic services accessible, and particularly European public websites. Since 1999, France has also been deeply committed to the accessibility of all online electronic services and notably the public websites’ accessibility. The obligation of websites accessibility was written in the French law in February 2005. In the same way, BrailleNet Association’s works in Web accessibility since 1997 led to the elaboration of a quality label, “AccessiWeb”, certifiying the accessibility of websites.
As a responsible insurer, Groupama has developed for 50 years a very active prevention policy aiming at anticipating risks in order to protect persons and properties. The Group is a major actor of the health field, private healthcare insurance playing a role of precursor to public health. Therefore, the Group decided in 2004 to get involved in Accessibility, with the aim of making the Group’s websites accessible to the greatest number of people.
Definition of Accessibility
“Put the Web and its services at everybody’s service, whatever their hardware or software, their network infrastructure, their mother tongue, their culture, their geographical location, or their physical and mental abilities.”
(Tim Berners-Lee, of the W. 3 C. and creator of the World Wide Web)
numerous features
This website proposes numerous features that allow a very good legibility of its content:
- Pages are organized to be quite functional, even if your browser does not bear “Javascript”.
- Font sizes are modifiable; they can be enlarged or reduced thanks options available on your visual browser.
- An alternative text is specified for all images. It is possible to surf this site without using a mouse (see notably the keyboard shortcuts’ list below).
- The site uses a style sheet layout (and not tables width=100%) to make sure the structure of the information is preserved
- The site uses also an external style sheet for the user to substitute it for its own style sheet.
- The accessibility of the site complies with theAccessiweb level.
Keyboard shortcuts
To access the sections whose keyboard shortcuts has been set up, use the following key combinations:
With Windows (PC)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and above: press simultaneously “Alt” key and the shortcut key
Mozilla, Firefox 2.0 and above: press simultaneously “Alt” key and the shortcut key
With Mac OSX (Macintosh):
Safari: press simultaneously “Control” key and “Enter” shortcut key
Moreover, Shortcut keys have been set up for the whole site:
- “1” lead to the home page
- “2” lead to the news page
- “3” lead to the site plan page
- “4” lead to the FAQ page
- “5” lead to the help page
- “6” lead to the contacts page
- “7” lead to the legal notices page
Enlarge/Reduce the text size
Each literal element of the site has a default size.
The user has the possibility to change it thanks to the dedicated button of the browser.
Microsoft Internet Explorer: “Display” menu, then “Text Size”
Firefox 2.0 and above: “Display” menu, then “Text Zoom”
Reading aid of attached documents
You will find in the site downloadable PDF documents.
If you do not have Acrobat Reader, you can download it from the Adobe website:
Download Acrobat reader.
You can also transform PDF documents into classic HTML pages using the online conversion engine of Adobe; therefore you need to copy the link to the PDF file and paste it in the field provided.
This tool is available on the following address:
The Online conversion tool of Adobe.
Note that according to the complexity of the PDF document, the conversion obtained can be more or less satisfactory.
