What Octeasy does not do
Octeasy is a reading comfort tool. It lets each visitor adjust how a site is displayed. It does not make a site meet accessibility standards such as WCAG or the French RGAA, it replaces neither an audit nor the fixes, and it does not protect you legally.
What it does not do
- It does not fix your site's code: headings, form labels, text alternatives and keyboard navigation remain your responsibility.
- It does not make your site meet accessibility standards, make it fully accessible or protect you legally: no widget can truthfully claim any of this, and we never do.
- It replaces neither an accessibility audit (in France, against the RGAA) nor an accessibility statement based on that audit.
- It does not work inside embedded third-party frames (videos, maps, external forms).
What it does
- It lets visitors choose the text size, font, spacing, colours and contrast.
- It adds reading aids: reading ruler, reading mask, magnifier, and read-aloud using the device's own voices.
- It helps with navigation: underlined links, highly visible focus, large click areas, a page outline.
- It calms the page down: animations stopped, images hidden, sound muted.
- It changes neither the roles, nor the ARIA attributes, nor the text of your pages: it works through styles and overlays.
Technical limits
- Effects are applied as styles on top of your site. On a very unusual site (forced inline styles, canvas, third-party frames), some settings only work partly.
- Read-aloud depends on the voices installed on the visitor's device, in their language. Without a local voice, it may be unavailable.
- The "Avoid motion" setting stops animations and softens colours. It is no substitute for a site designed without flashing content.
When an audit is needed
Depending on its nature, a site may be subject to an accessibility obligation. Here is what the French and European texts say, according to Légifrance and EUR-Lex. This is information, not legal advice: for a specific case, consult a lawyer.
- In France, online public communication services run by public-law entities, by private bodies entrusted with a public service mission or publicly funded or controlled, and by companies above a turnover threshold must be accessible to people with disabilities (Law no. 2005-102, art. 47, Légifrance).
- For companies, the threshold is €250 million in annual turnover, calculated as the average turnover achieved in France over the last three closed financial years (Decree no. 2019-768, art. 2, Légifrance).
- In the private sector, services provided to consumers after 28 June 2025 are covered, including e-commerce and consumer banking services (Directive (EU) 2019/882, known as the European Accessibility Act, art. 2, EUR-Lex; French Consumer Code, art. L412-13 and D412-50).
- Businesses with fewer than ten people that provide services, and whose annual turnover or balance sheet total does not exceed €2 million, are exempt (French Consumer Code, art. L412-13, I).
The same applies to the rules of other countries, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the United States: the widget does not meet any of these obligations on a site's behalf.
If your site is covered, it needs an audit against the applicable standard (in France, the RGAA), fixes and an accessibility statement. Octeasy adds to this work: it brings reading comfort to your visitors, it does not replace it.