News taken from Times of India:
BHUBANESWAR: The state government is planning to make government web portals disabled-friendly with screen readers, resizing of texts and colour contrast scheme by August 15.
Screen reader is a software application that interprets the display on a computer and presents it to an user in a text-to-speech, sound icon or Braille form, making the contents accessible to the blind.
Deputy general manager of executing body, Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC), S K Tripathy said three-pronged steps are being taken to make the government websites usable for the differently-abled. "People having problems in identifying small letters can go for big font version," he said. Secondly, colour contrast scheme will be introduced to make it easy for people with colour blindness and partial visibility. Each site will have multiple colour scheme. Thirdly, the sites will be made screen reader-enabled so that blind people, having the software, can access the content, he said, adding, work
in many sites is in advanced stages of completion.
Of the total 39 state government departments, 17 are managing their websites independently. The other department sites are nested on the state portal (www.odisha.gov.in) and managed by OCAC. The government has asked the 17 departments having independent URLs to complete the disabled-friendly task by August 15 while the sites managed by OCAC has been given July-end deadline.
The government move follows a decision taken in a meeting chaired by chief secretary Jugal Kishore Mohapatra on May 17.
On March 21, deputy chief commissioner for persons with disabilities, ministry of social justice and empowerment, had written to the chief secretary to make the sites accessible to all.
Source: Times of India.
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