RGAA is the French general framework for improving accessibility of public digital services and related online content today.
This article is general background for readers and is not a legal opinion on any organization or website.
How it works
The framework sets testable expectations so people with disabilities can perceive, operate, and understand public sites.
It draws on widely used accessibility guidance and turns that guidance into a French reference that teams can audit against.
Meeting it is a design and engineering practice: text alternatives, keyboard use, contrast, and clear structure.
Whether a given body must comply, and how an audit is judged, depends on rules and facts this page does not decide.
Concrete examples
- A ministry site adds captions and a visible focus order so keyboard users can complete a form.
- A city portal checks color contrast on alerts before publishing a weather warning.
- An agency documents which pages were sampled when it assessed its online forms.
Protective measures
- Treat accessibility as a build requirement and test key journeys with keyboard and screen reader use.
- Publish an accessibility statement that matches what you actually tested, and correct known blockers.
- Train editors so new documents do not undo headings, labels, and alternatives that developers provided.
- Ask qualified auditors when you need a formal result, and do not read this article as that result.