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Websites will talk to you now
Sruthy Susan Ullas, TNN 2 September 2009, 12:37am IST
BANGALORE: Websites will soon be accessible to the disabled,
especially the visually-impaired,
once the Union government makes it mandatory for all websites to go audible.
For this, websites have to conform to the Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines. This
new standard, along with a screen reader, will make content audible
through a headphone
or a speaker. A visually-impaired person can use the keyboard to
respond -- the tab
keys will take him or her through different links.
The project has been given to BarrierBreak Technologies and will take
10%-15% of
the ordinary project cost.
"It will not only help blind people, but also aged and illiterate
people," said Javed
Abidi, National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People.
The idea came up last year on December 3, `Day for the Disabled', in
Delhi. "The
IT ministry was proactive about the programme. The draft, approved by
the ministry,
will be released soon," he said. The policy would be extended to
other hardware as
well -- like the ATM, television, washing machine and microwave. This
will be the
second phase of the project.
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