Screen Reader Access

The Rajya Sabha 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. The information of the website is accessible with different screen readers, such as SAFA, JAWS etc.

Following table lists the information about different screen readers:

Information related to the various screen readers

Screen Reader Website Free / Commercial
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
Hal [http://www.yourdolphin.co.uk/productdetail.asp?id=5 External website that opens in a new window] Commercial
JAWS [http://www.freedomscientific.com/jaws-hq.asp External website that opens in a new window] Commercial
Supernova [http://www.yourdolphin.co.uk/productdetail.asp?id=1 External website that opens in a new window] Commercial
Window-Eyes [http://www.gwmicro.com/Window-Eyes/ External website that opens in a new window] Commercial