Indian government wants to make their websites accessible compliant, i.e. making it easy for people with disabilities, especially visually-impaired ones to use government websites.
Web Accessibility Guidelines
Typically, individuals with disability use screen reader softwares which read out synthesized speech of the entire HTML (or some parts). Accessibility guidelines range from using semantically meaningful/valid HTML tags to using alt tags for images and closed captioned for videos etc.
While all this sounds ambitious for the government, we just hope that government first make it’s website usable for otherwise normal people – most of the sites have moving banners and are open for hackers (read: Cyber war between Indian and Pakistani Hackers).
Last, but not the least – we just hope that government doesn’t mandates Indian sites to be made accessibility compliant (they made Online Transaction More Difficult)– the market is too small to spend effort in such initiatives.
What’s your take on this initiative?
“Government first make it’s website usable for otherwise normal people” – Very true.
- For accessing their contact details we need to download a pdf file which is a scanned copy of a document.
- All the phone numbers are outdated. Bangalore numbers still have 7 digits.
- They open only in Internet Explorer
- There are so many colors, fonts, banners
- Most information are outdated and irrelevant
Overall as bad as it can ever get and they now want to make it accessible compliant.
Iwant to do this worke because i am a bearing holding this work properly i attatch with people
Very well Said. They need to make their website accessible for the otherwise normal people and then think of making it accessible for disabled.
I design and develop websites, i have a government client after one year when the domain renewal was due, i sent reminder after reminder and no response was the result. Site gone expired and when i personally sent some one to visit the officials and discuss the matter, they asked to sen email. When we told them we sent several emails they says, they are using a different email now. Long story short, when they can’t take care of their domain.. making a nice accessible website is far from being true.