Accessibility

Rotor Club Aixois strives to make its website accessible to as many people as possible, including people with disabilities. This page describes the audit we carried out, its results, and how to report a problem to us.

Our commitment

As a non-profit association ("loi 1901"), we are not legally required to comply with RGAA (the French general accessibility standard for public bodies and large companies). We nonetheless prefer to publish a real audit here, with its actual results, rather than a token statement.

Audit methodology

The audit carried out on 13 July 2026 was conducted in two stages:

• Automated analysis with axe-core (version 4.10.2), the industry-standard tool, against WCAG 2.1 levels A and AA. The tool was run directly in the browser, on the live website.
• Manual review of the code and visual checks, in particular for points the automated tool cannot decide on its own (contrast of text over a photo, consistency of keyboard navigation).

Ten pages representative of the site's different page templates were tested: the homepage, the contact form, a helicopter model page (dynamic page), the FAQ (accordion), the media gallery, the helicopter restaurants page (embedded map), a long-form content page (legal notice), the site map, the personal data page, as well as the English homepage.

A follow-up check was then carried out after the site's 5 legal and utility pages (legal notice, privacy policy, personal data, accessibility, site map) were fully translated into English: the 5 new English pages, as well as their French counterparts (which gained a breadcrumb trail that was not present during the first pass), were retested.

Results

Four real issues were found and fixed:

1. Insufficient contrast on several secondary pieces of text (article dates, testimonial captions, the copyright line in the footer): the grey used did not reach the minimum contrast ratio required (4.5:1) for small text. Fixed by slightly darkening this text.
2. Redundant alt text on the footer logo: a screen reader announced it twice (once via the image, once via the text displayed right next to it). Fixed.
3. Skipped heading level on the homepage (a section heading jumped straight from level 1 to level 3, skipping level 2), which could disrupt heading-based navigation for screen reader users. Fixed by adding the missing section heading.
4. Redundant alt text on the 24 photos in the media gallery: each caption was repeated verbatim in the image's alt text, causing it to be announced twice by a screen reader. Fixed.

Follow-up check of the 5 legal pages and their new English versions: no issues found. Neither a regression on the French pages, nor a defect introduced by the new English pages.

Points checked manually, with no real issue found: the automated tool systematically flags the homepage banner text (white on a photo) as "needs manual review", because it cannot reliably analyse text overlaid on an image with our display typeface. A direct visual check confirms wide, unambiguous contrast, thanks to the dark gradient applied over the photo behind the text.

Known limitation, outside our control: the content of third-party maps and widgets (Google Maps, Cloudflare's anti-bot check) cannot be analysed by the tool, as this content is hosted and generated by these external services.

Report a problem to us

If you encounter any difficulty accessing content or a feature on the website, please let us know by email at [email protected], by phone at 06 80 60 98 41, or via our contact form. Please describe the page concerned and the problem encountered where possible: we will do our best to fix it.