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Paris Institute for Critical Thinking

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Accessibility statement

Accessibility

How accessible this website is, what we have done to make it so, and how to tell us about a problem.

The Paris Institute for Critical Thinking wants everyone to be able to read this website, use it and take part in what it describes. This statement says what we aim for, what we do, where we know we fall short, and how to tell us when we have failed you.

Our target

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA on every page. This is a target, not a certificate: the site is new, and we have not yet had it audited independently.

What we do

  • Keyboard. We aim to make every link, button, menu and dialog usable with a keyboard alone. We aim to show a visible focus outline on whatever has keyboard focus, and to keep the fixed navigation bar of small screens from covering it. A skip link at the top of each page takes you straight to the main content.
  • Contrast and colour. Text meets a contrast ratio of at least 4.5 to 1, and interface elements at least 3 to 1, in both the light and the dark theme. Colour is never the only way information is shown, and links in running text are underlined.
  • Text and zoom. Pages reflow down to a 320 pixel width and can be zoomed to 200 percent without losing content or needing to scroll sideways. Type sizes are relative, so your browser’s text settings are respected.
  • Images. Images that carry meaning have a text description. Decorative images are hidden from screen readers.
  • Audio and video. This site does not host audio or video yet. Its podcast pages list recordings and link to them on SoundCloud and YouTube, and this site offers no transcripts for them. When we publish recordings on this site, we intend to put a transcript on the same page as each one.
  • Motion. Animation is minimal and is switched off if your system asks for reduced motion.
  • Structure. We aim to give each page headings in order, landmarks and a title of its own, so that screen-reader users can move around it. The language of the page is declared, and text in another language, such as a French article, is marked as such.

Known limitations

  • Some older articles and course pages were migrated from our previous website, and may have images without descriptions, headings out of order, or links that read poorly out of context. We are correcting them as we find them.
  • PDF files, such as journal volumes and reading lists, may not be fully accessible. If you need one in another form, ask us and we will provide it.
  • The recordings we link to are on SoundCloud and YouTube, which have their own accessibility, and we do not control it. No podcast episodes or transcripts are published on this site yet. If you need a transcript of a recording, write to us and tell us which one, and we will do what we can.

Tell us about a problem

If you cannot use part of this website, or find something that does not meet the standard above, please tell us. Write to info@parisinstitute.org and say which page you were on, what you were trying to do, and what got in the way. If you use assistive technology, tell us which. We will reply as soon as we can, and aim to fix the problem or offer you another way of getting the same content.

This statement was last updated on 9 October 2026.

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