Accessibility

This site aims for level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2). No audit has been carried out yet : this page describes what is done, not an established conformity.

What is in place

The first five settings are gathered in the "Display" button at the bottom of every page. Your choices are kept on your device, with no account and no cookie sent to our servers.

• Light or dark theme, or automatic following of your system setting
• Text size : normal (16 px) or large (20 px), a quarter more, with no loss of content
• High contrast : black on white, sharp borders, shadows and secondary greys removed
• Airy spacing : increased letter spacing, word spacing and line height, and lines brought down to 62 characters
• Dyslexia mode : the OpenDyslexic typeface applied to the whole page
• Full keyboard navigation, with a visible focus outline
• Skip link to the main content
• Animations removed if your system signals a preference for that
• Alternative text on images that carry information

On so-called "dyslexia" typefaces

We offer OpenDyslexic, under the "Dyslexia mode" setting. It is only downloaded if you turn it on : nobody pays the weight of a typeface they do not use.

We do not present it as the solution for all that : studies evaluating these typefaces give contradictory results, whereas the effect of increased spacing is observed consistently. That is why "airy" spacing is a separate and independent setting, and not a trade-off : one does not cancel the other, both add up, and everyone keeps the choice of what actually helps them.

What remains to be done

• Accessibility audit by a third party
• Checking contrast across all interface states
• Screen reader testing on the review submission journeys

Report an obstacle

Write to contact@louis.guide describing the page and the difficulty encountered : we reply and we fix it.

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