ACCESSIBILITY
TO PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
The Gandhigram rural Institute –Deemed
University complies with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 level AA ,as well
as article of -9(“Accessibility”) UN convention on the rights for persons with
disabilities.
Screen reader software
This will enable
people with visual impairments access the website using assistive technologies,
such as screen readers. The information of the website is accessible with
different screen reader free downloadable software supported with windows
vista, windows 7 operating system.
Following table lists the information
about different screen readers:
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Information related
to the various screen readers |
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|
Screen Reader |
Website |
Free /
Commercial |
|
Screen Access For All (SAFA) |
http://www.nabdelhi.org/NAB_SAFA.htm (External website that opens in a new window) |
Free |
|
Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) |
http://www.nvda-project.org/ (External website that opens in a new window) |
Free |
|
System Access To Go |
http://www.satogo.com/ (External website that opens in a new window) |
Free |
|
Thunder |
http://www.screenreader.net/index.php?pageid=2 (External website that opens in a new window) |
Free |
|
WebAnywhere |
http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/wa.php (External website that opens in a new window) |
Free |
Speech
recognition software
This will enable people with mobility
impairments, people with visual impairments and senior citizens access the
website using assistive technologies, such as speech recognition software. The
information of the website is accessible with different speech recognition
software supported with Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.
Following table lists the information
about different speech recognition software:
Information releated
to speech recognition software
|
Speech Recognition Software |
Website |
Free /commercail |
|
E-speaking |
http://www.e-speaking.com/free_speech_voice_recognition_dictation_software.htm |
Free |
|
Dictation-pro |
Free |