Article 47 of the Handicap law of 11 February 2005 stipulates that: "The public on-line communication services of the departments of State, the regions and communities, and the public establishments dependent upon them, must be accessible to all individuals, whatever their hardware and software, their network infrastructure, or their physical or mental capabilities".

The Tourism in the Meuse website has applied the principal recommendations of the Agency for the development of electronic administration.

The fundamental principles

Making a website accessible to all involves being committed to following the rules for structuring the information: laying out the contents in well-defined tree structures, using standard characters, naming images and animations, describing the contents in an alternative text, naming documents to be downloaded, marking titles and sub-headings as such, clearly indicating the title of a page or of a link to another website, etc.

Documents to download
Part of the documents to be downloaded is presented in at least one accessible format (HTML, TXT, RTF).

To download documents in PDF format, it is necessary to download Acrobat Reader.
If you do not have this, go to the Adobe site: download Acrobat Reader.
Otherwise, you can change PDFs into classic HTML format by using the Adobe on-line conversion tool. For that, copy the address of the link to the PDF file and paste it into the field provided for this on: the Adobe on-line conversion tool.


For animated pages, download Flash reader (free program). One download onto your hard drive is sufficient.

More information on the Accessiweb criteria
To obtain a list of the 92 Accessiweb criteria, please go to the following site: http://www.accessiweb.org/fr/

This list was compiled using international recommendations WCAG 1.0 of W.3.C/WAI and on the basis of evaluations of sites produced by the BrailleNet association.