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Bill 96 · Law 25 · your website

Does your website keep its promises in French?

The OQLF received more than 11,000 complaints last year, and it looks at your site the day someone complains. A forgotten "Checkout" button on your French page is a complaint waiting to be filed. Veilleur finds it first.

Free, no account. About twenty pages, one to two minutes. Full report on screen, dated PDF included. Your email is only used to send you the link. Privacy.

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Veilleur in 33 seconds

Video description

Silent 33-second video. Is your website ready? Veilleur reads your site, page by page, and flags the gaps, rule by rule. On a demo site, it finds an English-only button and a form with no French version (Bill 96), cookies set before consent and a Reject button that does nothing (Law 25). You fix them: the site gets its French version with English still available, no cookie is set before the visitor chooses, and the Reject button works. Veilleur checks every day, and every scan is dated and archived. Systems that do the work. And prove it. Veilleur, a service of Operanto Technologies inc. Free scan at veilleur.ca.

What an inspector sees

Veilleur renders every page in a real browser, like a person, and reads what is displayed: menus, buttons, forms, terms of sale, cart.

Findings, not a score

Every finding quotes the offending string and the element that holds it. "Your cart is empty in h1.majortitle" is a work order, not an argument.

No false accusations

A brand name is not English. A single word is not evidence. When in doubt, Veilleur asks a question rather than making an accusation.

What Veilleur checks

Veilleur is an online service of Operanto Technologies inc., in Montréal, that checks a website against Bill 96 (French) and Law 25 (privacy), and tells whether ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can read it. The check is free. Daily monitoring costs $79 a month per site, the audit $399 one time.

  1. A French version exists and can be reached from the home page, not hidden behind an address to guess.
  2. The pages that matter, terms, checkout, pricing, contact, sign-in, exist in French.
  3. Every English page has its French counterpart, not a reduced summary.
  4. No English strings are left on French pages: buttons, fields, error messages, third-party widgets.
  5. The French is French: anglicisms the OQLF has a word for, dates and prices written the English way ($29.99 rather than 29,99 $), and, on the paid plans, a review of the prose by a language model with a Québec copy editor's rubric.
  6. Law 25 too: no tracking cookie active before the visitor consents or after they refuse, a published privacy policy, and the title and contact details of the person in charge of personal information, which every business must show on its website.
  7. Readable by AI engines: can ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google, Bing and Apple read your site? The robots.txt file, the firewall, pages empty without JavaScript, structured data.

Then, as a subscription: Veilleur comes back every morning and warns you the day English returns after a deployment. Yesterday's report does not cover this morning's release.

A report, now

Enter your site's address. If everything is in order, you will know in two minutes. If not, you will know exactly what to fix.

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