Cheat sheet: Leaving people out

The 34 terms of this lesson, part by part, with the French word a team in France would use.

1. Who can't use it?

Accessibilityaccessibilité: how well people with a disability can use a site, for example with a screen reader, the keyboard or larger text.
Screen readerlecteur d'écran: software that reads a page aloud, so that blind people and people with poor sight can use it.
Low visionmalvoyance: poor sight that glasses can't fully correct, so that people zoom in and need strong contrast.
Subtitlessous-titres: the text of what is said in a video, shown on the screen at the same time.
Transcripttranscription: the text of everything said in an audio or a video, which people can read instead of listening.
Situational disabilityhandicap situationnel: a limit that comes from the moment, such as sun on the screen or a baby in one arm, not from the person.

RGAARGAA: the official French standard that says how to make a site usable by people with disabilities.
WCAGWCAG: the international guidelines for making web content accessible, on which the French RGAA is based.
Accessibility statementdéclaration d'accessibilité: a page that says how well a site meets the accessibility rules, what still fails, and whom to contact.
European Accessibility Actacte européen sur l'accessibilité, EAA: the European law that, since June 2025, requires most companies that sell online to have an accessible site.
Briefbrief: a short document that says what to build, for whom and within which limits.
Accessibility widgetwidget d'accessibilité: an icon added to a site that promises to make it accessible in one line of code, without changing the HTML.

LighthouseLighthouse: a free audit in Chrome's developer tools that scores a page's speed and accessibility and lists its problems.
Tab keytouche Tab: the key that moves from one link, button or form field to the next, so that a page can be used without a mouse.
Screen readerlecteur d'écran: software that reads a page aloud, so that blind people and people with poor sight can use it.
VoiceOverVoiceOver: the screen reader built into iPhones, iPads and Macs.
TalkBackTalkBack: the screen reader built into Android phones.
Alt texttexte alternatif: a short text that replaces a picture, read aloud by screen readers and shown if the picture doesn't load.
Subtitlessous-titres: the text of what is said in a video, shown on the screen at the same time.

Digital exclusionillectronisme, exclusion numérique: the situation of people who can't use online services, for lack of a device, a connection or the skills.
INSEEINSEE: France's national statistics office, which measures, among other things, how many people use the internet.
Channelcanal: a way for people to reach a service, such as a website, an app, a phone line or a counter.
Conseil d'ÉtatConseil d'État: the French court that judges, at the highest level, cases against the State and public bodies.
Accessibilityaccessibilité: how well people with a disability can use a site, for example with a screen reader, the keyboard or larger text.

Subtitlessous-titres: the text of what is said in a video, shown on the screen at the same time.
Labellibellé: the text that says what a field is for, such as "Email", which stays visible next to the field.
Contrast ratiorapport de contraste: a measure of the difference in brightness between text and its background, at least 4.5 to 1 for main text.
Page weightpoids de la page: the total size of all the files a page downloads, measured in megabytes (MB).
Usability testtest utilisateur: a session where real people try to complete a task on a site while you watch, without helping them.

WCAGWCAG: the international guidelines for making web content accessible, on which the French RGAA is based.
RGAARGAA: the official French standard that says how to make a site usable by people with disabilities.
Accessibility statementdéclaration d'accessibilité: a page that says how well a site meets the accessibility rules, what still fails, and whom to contact.
Screen readerlecteur d'écran: software that reads a page aloud, so that blind people and people with poor sight can use it.
Digital exclusionillectronisme, exclusion numérique: the situation of people who can't use online services, for lack of a device, a connection or the skills.

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