The website complies with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 level AA. This will enable people with visual impairments access the website using assistive technologies, such as screen readers. Following table lists the information about different screen readers:
Information related to the various screen readers
Screen Reader | Website | Free / Commercial |
Screen Access For All (SAFA) | http://www.nabdelhi.org/NAB_SAFA.htm | Free |
Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) | http://www.nvda-project.org/ | Free |
System Access To Go | http://www.satogo.com/ | Free |
Thunder | http://www.screenreader.net/index.php?pageid=2 | Free |
WebAnywhere | http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/wa.php | Free |
Hal | http://www.yourdolphin.co.uk/productdetail.asp?id=5 | Commercial |
JAWS | http://www.freedomscientific.com/jaws-hq.asp | Commercial |
Supernova | http://www.yourdolphin.co.uk/productdetail.asp?id=1 | Commercial |
Window-Eyes | http://www.gwmicro.com/Window-Eyes/ | Commercial |
Use the accessibility options provided by this Web site to control the screen display. These options allow increasing the text spacing, changing the text size and color scheme for clear visibility and better readability.
Changing the size of the text refers to making the text appearing smaller or bigger from its standard size. There are five options provided to you to set the size of the text that affect readability. These are:
The website allows you to change the text size in two different ways, by clicking on the text size icons present at the top of each page and through the Accessibility Options page.
Following different options are provided in the form of icons which are available on the top of each page:
To change the text size using the Accessibility Options page: