Compliance statement on accessibility

Air Liquide is committed to making its web site accessible, in accordance with Article 47 of French Law n° 2005-102 of February 11, 2005.

To this end, it shall implement the strategy and actions detailed in its multi-year plan which is currently being drawn up.

This declaration of accessibility applies to the airliquide.com website.

Compliance status

The Air Liquide site is in partial compliance with RGAA 4.1 Double-A (AA) level due to the non-conformities and deviations listed below.

Test results

The compliance audit carried out by Ipedis reveals that the average compliance rate is 77,97%.

Test report: 

  • 46 compliant criteria
  • 13 non-compliant criteria
  • 47 non-applicable criteria

Non-accessible content

The contents listed below are not accessible for the following reasons.

Non-compliance

Several elements of non-compliance are described in this document, some of which are recurrent on several pages:

  • Decorative images are not ignored by the screen reader
  • Some informative images do not have a text alternative
  • Videos do not have text transcripts or audio descriptions
  • The headings of the tables found in the "legal notices" and "Air Liquide in brief" pages are not correctly declared
  • Some button and link headings are not explicit
  • Status and alert messages are not vocalized by the screen reader
  • Source code is not always valid
  • Tags are used to visually create paragraphs and space between content
  • Some lists of items are not defined in an accessible way
  • The "top of page" button overlays the text when zoomed to 200%
  • Tab order is not always consistent
  • Animations cannot be stopped or paused

Derogations for disproportionate loading

No identified exception.

Content not subject to the obligation of accessibility

No content not subject to the accessibility obligation.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on January 25, 2022.

Technologies used to create this website:

  • HTML5
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

Web page testing was carried out using combinations of the following user agents and screen readers:

  • NVDA with Google Chrome

The following tools were used for the assessment:

  • Web Developer Toolbar
  • Focus
  • Contrast Color checker WCAG
  • Accessibility insights for web
  • Axe dev tool
  • Zoom Text Onl

Website pages that underwent compliance testing:

Contact information and feedback

If you are unable to access content or a service, you may contact the webmaster to be guided to an accessible alternative or obtain the content in another format.

  • Send a message via our contact form (Website / Report a technical issue)
  • Contact Air Liquide's communications department by phone: +33 1 40 62 55 55 (switchboard)

Enforcement procedure

This procedure is to be used in the following case:

You have reported an accessibility problem to the webmaster that prevents you from accessing content or one of the services on the website, and you have not obtained a satisfactory answer.