Government of India

Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics

(An ISO 9001:2015 Certified Organisation)

Page last modified on : 21/Feb/2017

SCREEN READER ACCESS

 

The website of the Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities 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, including screen readers. The information of the website is accessible with different screen readers, such as JAWS, NVDA, SAFA, Supernova and Window-Eyes. 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

Speech Recognition Support

The website of the Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities complies with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA. 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, such as Dragon Naturally Speaking as well as Speech Recognition support available in Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.

Following table lists the information about different speech recognition software:

Information related to Speech Recognition Software
Speech Recognition Software Website Free / Commercial
Dragon Naturally Speaking   http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/products/default.asp  
Windows Speech Recognition in Windows Vista  http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/windowsvista/speech.aspx Commercial
Speech Recognition in Windows 7   http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/windows7/ Commercial