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"optimize-preload-priority", "optimize-script-priority", "overflow-clipping-control", "parallax-scroll-effects", "passkey-authentication", "passkey-conditional-create", "passkey-management", "passkey-reauthentication", "passkey-registration", "passkeys", "performance", "persistent-app-tours", "persistent-toast-notifications", "persistent-top-layer-ui", "physics-based-easing", "platform-controls-dismiss-dialog", "position-aware-tooltips", "precise-text-alignment", "prevent-text-wrapping", "privacy", "pull-to-reveal", "reduce-style-repetition", "required-field-feedback", "resilient-context-menus-and-nested-dropdowns", "resolution-optimized-pseudo-elements", "rich-media-picker", "same-document-transitions", "schedule-tasks-by-priority", "scroll-entry-exit-effects", "scroll-position-aware-elements", "scroll-progress-indicator", "scroll-snap-realtime-feedback", "scroll-snap-state-sync", "scroll-target-on-load", "scrollability-affordance-hints", "scrollytelling", "search-hidden-content", 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"screenshot", "path": "evidence/section-discoverability-rendered.png", "caption": "section discoverability rendered png", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/section-discoverability.json", "caption": "section discoverability json", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/section-layout.json", "caption": "section layout json", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/section-mobile.png", "caption": "section mobile png", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F06", "F08" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/section-probe.json", "caption": "section probe json", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/sitemap-index.xml", "caption": "sitemap index xml", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/sitemap.xml", "caption": "sitemap xml", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/subscription-mobile.png", "caption": "subscription mobile png", "condition": 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"evidence/home-dom.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-reduced-motion", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser evidence gathered on representative paths and compared with pinned Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The reduced-motion probe confirmed the preference and still found four running skeleton/skeletonShimmer animations, each with a 1,600 ms duration.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/reduced-motion.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-contrast", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct screenshot, DOM/evaluate, layout, Lighthouse, discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": "Forced-colors/prefers-contrast screenshot preserved readable text and visible controls.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-high-contrast.png" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "view-transitions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser evidence gathered on representative paths and compared with pinned Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The captured DOM/CSS contains no view-transition rule or declaration across a multi-page news experience.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "scroll-driven-animations", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement against the check’s stated scope.", "evidence": "No scroll-linked parallax, scrollytelling or reveal interaction was present on the representative templates, so there is no scroll-linked implementation to judge.", "reason": "No scroll-linked parallax, scrollytelling or reveal interaction was present on the representative templates, so there is no scroll-linked 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"F04" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "anchored-positioning", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser evidence gathered on representative paths and compared with pinned Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "DOM/CSS inspection found no anchor-name, position-anchor or position-try use despite menu and panel controls.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "directs-attention", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct screenshot, DOM/evaluate, layout, Lighthouse, discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": "Section branding, article breadcrumb text and the current bottom-navigation state clearly identify location.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-mobile.png" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser evidence gathered on representative paths and compared with pinned Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "Desktop and 360 px screenshots of home, section, article and search show a large modal covering the headline or task, with additional sticky subscription chrome on mobile.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-consent.png", "evidence/section-mobile.png", "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/search-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser evidence gathered on representative paths and compared with pinned Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The platform probe found an iframe titled “Consent window”; the document contains no dialog element, while the blocking surface is rendered outside the document’s 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scrollWidth=clientWidth=360, viewport metadata and zero horizontal overflow.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "component-level-responsiveness", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser evidence gathered on representative paths and compared with pinned Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The DOM probe reports container-type: normal and captured CSS contains no @container rule, although cards are reused in many widths.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F09" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "input-modality-aware", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser evidence gathered on representative paths and compared with pinned Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The focus probe found many 22 px-high navigation links and only a 1 px dotted focus outline; Lighthouse 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Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured LCP 10.7 s, FCP 4.2 s, TTI 16.5 s and performance 0.63; the independent trace measured LCP 2.57 s under a lighter desktop-like run, confirming strong condition sensitivity.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "visual-stability", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct screenshot, DOM/evaluate, layout, Lighthouse, discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": "CLS was 0 on home mobile/article, 0.00026 on section and 0.00886 on search; desktop home was 0.0196, all below the good threshold.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-main-thread", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser evidence gathered 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discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": "Representative screenshots show readable body copy, clear hierarchy and no narrow-viewport clipping.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-mobile.png" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct screenshot, DOM/evaluate, layout, Lighthouse, discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": "Viewport allows scaling (no user-scalable=no), and all tested 360 px templates reflow without horizontal overflow.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "no-console-errors", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct screenshot, DOM/evaluate, layout, Lighthouse, discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": 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representative layouts are mobile-friendly.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/robots.txt" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct screenshot, DOM/evaluate, layout, Lighthouse, discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": "Home/section/article returned 200 with canonical URLs and indexable robots metadata; robots.txt declares multiple dedicated sitemaps.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct screenshot, DOM/evaluate, layout, Lighthouse, discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": "Home has Organization/WebSite/WebPage JSON-LD and complete Open Graph title, description, URL and 1200×1200 image; article metadata matches its visible headline.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser evidence gathered on representative paths and compared with pinned Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "Headers show CSP limited to upgrade-insecure-requests; fig_save_consent and Wysistat lack Secure, and all three observed cookies use SameSite=None.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json", "evidence/home-cookies.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser evidence gathered on representative paths and compared with pinned Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "The tracker probe saw 21 non-main origins and known Google, DoubleClick and Taboola 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X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy; CSP contains only upgrade-insecure-requests, though HSTS and X-Frame-Options are present.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F25" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct screenshot, DOM/evaluate, layout, Lighthouse, discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": "Raw HTML contains 98% of home and 100% of section/article rendered content words, with title/H1/description broadly surviving without JavaScript.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-discoverability.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct screenshot, DOM/evaluate, layout, Lighthouse, discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": "Representative templates loaded stable server-rendered content, menus remained within the narrow viewport and no runtime console error was reported.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement against the check’s stated scope.", "evidence": "This is a server-rendered news publication rather than an installable application; a service worker controls the page, but installability is not required for the audited core reading journey.", "reason": "This is a server-rendered news publication rather than an installable application; a service worker controls the page, but installability is not required for the audited core reading journey." }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct 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"confidence": "high", "method": "Direct screenshot, DOM/evaluate, layout, Lighthouse, discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": "Visible dates/durations are rendered in French (for example “Il y a 32 minutes”), and prices use French euro formatting on subscription offers.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/subscription-probe.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct screenshot, DOM/evaluate, layout, Lighthouse, discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": "The audited content uses relative publication duration rather than ambiguous bare local timestamps; no scheduling or cross-zone event flow is present.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/article-probe.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser evidence gathered on representative paths and compared with pinned Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "“ACCEPT ALL” and setup are large filled buttons, while “Refuse all” is plain text at the bottom and “Continue without accepting” is a small top link; the modal blocks content.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile-consent.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F27" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "Recon and applicability judgement against the check’s stated scope.", "evidence": "The representative search control has no invalid-input state and the audited subscription selector uses labelled radio choices; there was no error-producing form validation flow to exercise.", "reason": "The representative search control has no invalid-input state and the audited subscription selector uses labelled radio choices; there was no 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no-commitment choices, renewal prices, “résiliable à tout moment” terms and customer-service contact.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/subscription-probe.json" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser evidence gathered on representative paths and compared with pinned Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "Of 100 images, 63 lack srcset, 66 below-fold images were not marked lazy and 9 use legacy formats; 9 lack dimensions.", "pathIds": [ "home" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F28" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct browser evidence gathered on representative paths and compared with pinned Modern Web Guidance.", "evidence": "HAR shows 109 third-party requests and 2.02 MB third-party transfer, while the trace reports 651 ms blocking time and tracker 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DOM/evaluate, layout, Lighthouse, discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": "After ten next/previous carousel cycles and garbage collection, heap self-size fell from 45.61 MB to 44.74 MB and node count fell from 810,232 to 775,261.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-heap-post.heapsnapshot" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct screenshot, DOM/evaluate, layout, Lighthouse, discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": "The baseline retained self-size was 45.61 MB with 4,416 DOM elements; large but bounded for the media-heavy page and it did not grow after interaction.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-heap-baseline.heapsnapshot" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Direct screenshot, DOM/evaluate, layout, Lighthouse, discoverability, network, recovery-flow or heap evidence as appropriate.", "evidence": "After repeated carousel interaction, native/object/closure populations and total nodes all decreased; no Detached constructor appeared among top retained constructors.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-heap-post.heapsnapshot" ], "pathIds": [ "home" ] } ], "principleOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F04", "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F06", "F07", "F08" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "expectation": 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Checkout/payment was not entered to avoid a transaction.", "url": "https://abonnement.lefigaro.fr/lefigaro", "conditions": [ "viewport: 360x800" ], "result": "pass" }, { "id": "error", "description": "Deliberately invalid URL representing HTTP 404 recovery.", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/this-page-does-not-exist-web-uplift-test", "conditions": [ "viewport: 360x800" ], "result": "pass" } ], "findings": [ { "id": "F01", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-color-scheme", "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "summary": "The site does not adapt to the user’s dark colour preference.", "evidence": "The dark-mode screenshot is byte-identical to the default capture (124,352 bytes), and the DOM reports color-scheme: normal with a white body background.", "suggestedFix": "Declare color-scheme and retint surfaces, text, imagery and browser chrome with prefers-color-scheme or light-dark().", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark.png", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F02", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-reduced-motion", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "summary": "Loading animations continue under reduced-motion.", "evidence": "The reduced-motion probe confirmed the preference and still found four running skeleton/skeletonShimmer animations, each with a 1,600 ms duration.", "suggestedFix": "Disable non-essential skeleton shimmer under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce and retain only static progress cues.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/reduced-motion.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F03", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "guidanceId": "cross-document-transitions", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "summary": "Navigation swaps are abrupt rather than using progressive-enhanced View Transitions.", "evidence": "The captured DOM/CSS contains no view-transition rule or declaration across a multi-page news experience.", "suggestedFix": "Add same-origin cross-document View Transitions with a no-motion fallback and stable transition names for shared header/article elements.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F04", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "guidanceId": "shrinking-header-on-scroll", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "summary": "Long news pages lack a scroll-state progress or responsive chrome cue.", "evidence": "The homepage is about 32,000 CSS px tall, but captured CSS/DOM contains no scroll-state query or progress indicator; navigation chrome remains static.", "suggestedFix": "Add a lightweight reading/scroll progress cue and use scroll-state container queries where supported, with a static fallback.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop-layout.json", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F05", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "anchored-positioning", "guidanceId": "position-aware-tooltips", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "summary": "Menus and transient panels do not expose CSS anchor-positioning/fallback placement.", "evidence": "DOM/CSS inspection found no anchor-name, position-anchor or position-try use despite menu and panel controls.", "suggestedFix": "Use CSS anchor positioning and position-try fallbacks for transient menus/tooltips while preserving the existing fallback layout.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F06", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "guidanceId": "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "summary": "A consent wall obscures the entire first viewport on every representative page.", "evidence": "Desktop and 360 px screenshots of home, section, article and search show a large modal covering the headline or task, with additional sticky subscription chrome on mobile.", "suggestedFix": "Replace the full-content-blocking first-load wall with a compact, accessible consent surface; keep reject/continue controls equally visible and allow content reading without an interruption.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-consent.png", "evidence/section-mobile.png", "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/search-mobile.png" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F07", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "guidanceId": "declarative-dialog-popover-control", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "summary": "The consent surface is an iframe-based custom modal rather than a document-native dismissible primitive.", "evidence": "The platform probe found an iframe titled “Consent window”; the document contains no dialog element, while the blocking surface is rendered outside the document’s semantic controls.", "suggestedFix": "Use a correctly labelled dialog for modal consent, manage focus and Escape, and use popover only for non-modal settings.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-platform-probe.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F08", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "principleCheckId": "reduced-chrome", "guidanceId": "reduce-style-repetition", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "summary": "Mobile content is crowded by stacked consent, subscription and fixed navigation chrome.", "evidence": "At 360×800 the consent surface, red subscription banner and bottom navigation leave no usable article content in the first viewport.", "suggestedFix": "Remove stacked promotions while consent is open and reserve persistent chrome for one high-value control surface at a time.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-consent.png", "evidence/section-mobile.png" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F09", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "component-level-responsiveness", "guidanceId": "size-aware-styling", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "summary": "Responsive behaviour is viewport-led rather than component-led.", "evidence": "The DOM probe reports container-type: normal and captured CSS contains no @container rule, although cards are reused in many widths.", "suggestedFix": "Introduce container-type on reusable card/list regions and size/style container queries, preserving media-query fallbacks.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F10", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "input-modality-aware", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "summary": "Some navigation targets are too short and focus treatment is weak.", "evidence": "The focus probe found many 22 px-high navigation links and only a 1 px dotted focus outline; Lighthouse also failed target-size.", "suggestedFix": "Give interactive targets at least 24×24 CSS px spacing (prefer 44 px for primary touch controls) and a clearly visible :focus-visible ring.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/focus-targets.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F11", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "principleCheckId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "guidanceId": "scrollability-affordance-hints", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "summary": "The page purpose and next action are hidden on first visit.", "evidence": "Across home, section, article and search mobile captures, the consent wall obscures the page heading and primary content/task.", "suggestedFix": "Keep the heading and primary task visible, and move consent to a non-obscuring, equally actionable surface.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-consent.png", "evidence/article-mobile.png", "evidence/search-mobile.png" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F12", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "principleCheckId": "primary-flow-completion", "guidanceId": "forms", "guidanceCategory": "forms", "summary": "Consent blocks the representative search journey before the user can ask a question.", "evidence": "The search page contains a labelled question textarea and submit action, but its first viewport is fully covered by consent; a direct ?question=agriculture URL does not execute or prefill the query.", "suggestedFix": "Allow the search form to be used without advertising consent, preserve the query in the URL, and show a clear loading/result state after submission.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/search-mobile.png", "evidence/search-controls.json", "evidence/search-results.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "search", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/vos-questions" }, { "id": "F13", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "good-core-web-vitals", "guidanceId": "performance", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "summary": "Mobile load performance is poor.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured LCP 10.7 s, FCP 4.2 s, TTI 16.5 s and performance 0.63; the independent trace measured LCP 2.57 s under a lighter desktop-like run, confirming strong condition sensitivity.", "suggestedFix": "Prioritise the LCP content, defer consent/ad/analytics work, reduce render-blocking dependencies and validate against mobile field-like conditions.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F14", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-main-thread", "guidanceId": "break-up-long-tasks", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "summary": "A very long main-thread task blocks responsiveness.", "evidence": "The trace recorded a 664.93 ms longest task and 651.11 ms total blocking time across three long tasks.", "suggestedFix": "Profile the 665 ms task, split non-critical work, schedule by priority and delay ad/analytics initialisation until after content interaction readiness.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F15", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "guidanceId": "optimize-script-priority", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "summary": "Critical delivery is dominated by scripts and a large dependency graph.", "evidence": "The HAR recorded 225 requests and 2.54 MB transferred, including 86 scripts/1.95 MB and 91 stylesheets; multiple parser-inserted high-priority scripts originate in the document head.", "suggestedFix": "Consolidate styles, defer non-critical scripts, gate ad/analytics bundles, and shorten the critical dependency chain.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F16", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "guidanceId": "identify-heavy-scripts", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "summary": "Third-party and duplicated tag-manager work dominates the JavaScript budget.", "evidence": "Five Google tag-manager/gtag resources account for roughly 1.39 MB, while third-party requests account for 109 requests and 2.02 MB.", "suggestedFix": "Remove duplicate tag containers, audit each vendor for user value, and load optional integrations conditionally after consent.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F17", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "names-roles-labels", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "summary": "Core carousel and bottom-navigation semantics are invalid.", "evidence": "axe found critical required-parent/required-children and invalid aria-controls failures, unnamed listboxes and three unnamed carousel-dot buttons.", "suggestedFix": "Replace conflicting menu/listbox roles with native list/button semantics or complete the required ARIA pattern; name every control and fix aria-controls targets.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/axe-home.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F18", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "sufficient-contrast", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "summary": "Several text labels fail WCAG AA contrast.", "evidence": "axe measured examples at 4.29:1, 2.84:1 and 1.6:1, including ad labels, game titles and the TV-grid label.", "suggestedFix": "Adjust foreground/background tokens to at least 4.5:1 for normal text and verify all image-overlay states.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/axe-home.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F19", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "structure-and-focus", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "summary": "ARIA structure undermines focus and reading order.", "evidence": "axe reported critical invalid menubar/menuitem parenting, list items under a non-list role and nested interactive descendants; focus styling is only a 1 px dotted outline.", "suggestedFix": "Prefer native navigation lists, remove redundant menu roles, avoid nested controls, and provide a strong focus-visible treatment.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/axe-home.json", "evidence/focus-targets.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F20", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "sound-document-and-assets", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "summary": "Some image assets have invalid sizing metadata.", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed image-aspect-ratio; the image primitive found 9 images without dimensions, 63 without srcset and 9 legacy-format images among 100 inspected.", "suggestedFix": "Correct intrinsic aspect ratios, add width/height, and provide responsive source sets without distorting media.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json", "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F21", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "security", "summary": "The page requests notification permission on load.", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed notification-on-start and traced the call to async-helpers JavaScript, before a user action.", "suggestedFix": "Request notifications only after an explicit, contextual user action and explain the value before invoking the browser prompt.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F22", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "security", "summary": "Transport is HTTPS, but CSP and cookie protection are weak.", "evidence": "Headers show CSP limited to upgrade-insecure-requests; fig_save_consent and Wysistat lack Secure, and all three observed cookies use SameSite=None.", "suggestedFix": "Deploy a restrictive nonce/hash CSP and mark cookies Secure with the narrowest workable SameSite policy; review long-lived analytics cookies.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json", "evidence/home-cookies.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F23", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "guidanceId": "privacy", "guidanceCategory": "privacy", "summary": "A large tracking footprint loads before advertising consent.", "evidence": "The tracker probe saw 21 non-main origins and known Google, DoubleClick and Taboola trackers; HAR recorded 109 third-party requests/2.02 MB while analytics payloads state isConsentGiven=false.", "suggestedFix": "Block non-essential trackers until opt-in, minimise vendors and events, and batch first-party analytics.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F24", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "guidanceId": "passkeys", "guidanceCategory": "passkeys", "summary": "Notification permission is requested out of context.", "evidence": "Lighthouse identified a notification permission request during page load rather than following a user gesture.", "suggestedFix": "Gate notification permission behind an explicit alert-subscription action; use capability explanation before the prompt.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse-home.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F25", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "defensive-browser-policies", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "security", "summary": "Several browser-enforced defenses are absent or incomplete.", "evidence": "The main response lacks X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy; CSP contains only upgrade-insecure-requests, though HSTS and X-Frame-Options are present.", "suggestedFix": "Add nosniff, a strict referrer policy, a least-privilege permissions policy and a real script/style CSP with frame-ancestors.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-headers.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F26", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-internationalised", "principleCheckId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "guidanceId": "translator", "guidanceCategory": "built-in-ai", "summary": "The French experience presents a mixed-language consent flow.", "evidence": "Representative French pages declare lang=fr, but the blocking consent heading/body and “Continue without accepting” link are English while action labels are partly French.", "suggestedFix": "Localise the entire CMP from the document locale and keep language consistent across iframe and host content.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-consent.png", "evidence/home-platform-probe.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F27", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "principleCheckId": "no-dark-patterns", "guidanceId": "custom-button-actions", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "summary": "Consent choices use asymmetric visual emphasis.", "evidence": "“ACCEPT ALL” and setup are large filled buttons, while “Refuse all” is plain text at the bottom and “Continue without accepting” is a small top link; the modal blocks content.", "suggestedFix": "Give accept and reject equal prominence, use one language, avoid blocking content, and preserve easy settings/reversal.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/home-mobile-consent.png" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F28", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "optimised-assets", "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "summary": "Image delivery leaves avoidable responsive-format waste.", "evidence": "Of 100 images, 63 lack srcset, 66 below-fold images were not marked lazy and 9 use legacy formats; 9 lack dimensions.", "suggestedFix": "Generate AVIF/WebP responsive variants, add srcset/sizes and dimensions, and lazy-load genuinely below-fold media.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-images.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F29", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "no-wasteful-work", "guidanceId": "deprioritize-background-fetches", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "summary": "Advertising and analytics perform substantial work before consent.", "evidence": "HAR shows 109 third-party requests and 2.02 MB third-party transfer, while the trace reports 651 ms blocking time and tracker calls indicate consent=false.", "suggestedFix": "Prevent optional fetches before consent and interaction, deduplicate tags, and deprioritise background measurement.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" }, { "id": "F30", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "guidanceId": "efficient-background-processing", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "summary": "Third-party code is disproportionate to the first-view news content.", "evidence": "Third parties transfer 2.02 MB of the 2.54 MB load; tag manager, ad-tech and recommendation scripts are the largest offenders.", "suggestedFix": "Set and enforce a third-party byte/request budget, remove redundant vendors and defer non-essential media/ad code.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://www.lefigaro.fr/" } ], "taskList": [ { "id": "T01", "title": "Replace the blocking, asymmetric consent wall and prevent all non-essential tracking before opt-in", "priority": 1, "findingIds": [ "F06", "F07", "F08", "F11", "F12", "F23", "F27", "F29", "F30" ], "guidanceId": "light-dismiss-a-dialog", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T02", "title": "Cut the critical JavaScript and third-party dependency chain to restore mobile LCP and responsiveness", "priority": 2, "findingIds": [ "F13", "F14", "F15", "F16" ], "guidanceId": "identify-heavy-scripts", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T03", "title": "Repair carousel, navigation and list semantics, contrast, focus and target sizing", "priority": 3, "findingIds": [ "F10", "F17", "F18", "F19" ], "guidanceId": "accessibility", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T04", "title": "Deploy a restrictive CSP and complete cookie/header defenses", "priority": 4, "findingIds": [ "F22", "F25" ], "guidanceId": "security", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T05", "title": "Modernise responsive image delivery and intrinsic sizing", "priority": 5, "findingIds": [ "F20", "F28" ], "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T06", "title": "Respect dark mode and reduced motion preferences", "priority": 6, "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02" ], "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T07", "title": "Localise the consent experience consistently in French", "priority": 7, "findingIds": [ "F26" ], "guidanceId": "translator", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T08", "title": "Move notification permission behind an explicit user action", "priority": 8, "findingIds": [ "F21", "F24" ], "guidanceId": "security", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T09", "title": "Progressively enhance navigation with View Transitions, scroll-state cues and anchored overlays", "priority": 9, "findingIds": [ "F03", "F04", "F05" ], "guidanceId": "cross-document-transitions", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T10", "title": "Adopt component-level container queries for reused card/list layouts", "priority": 10, "findingIds": [ "F09" ], "guidanceId": "size-aware-styling", "status": "open" } ], "budget": { "pathCount": 6, "auditPasses": 1 }, "agent": "pi", "runId": "2026-07-20T23-15-45-275Z" }