SJED website has made efforts to improve basic menu navigation and labeling in order to provide a simple and effortless navigation experience to visitors using screen-reading software for Web browsing. We will continue to research and implement solutions that bring the SJED website top-level pages to the usual exemplary level in the areas of accessibility and universal design.

General Information

In the development of the SJED website, efforts have been made towards adding a significant number of accessibility features that complement the use of assistive technologies and help to make the website accessible to maximum possible users/visitors, ranging from those who use assistive technologies to those with a low end browser or computer.

Guidelines

In the development of this site, we followed HTML 4.01 Transitional to meet Guidelines for Indian Government Websites and also adhere to Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 laid down by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Visual Design

This site uses Cascading Style Sheets to control the overall presentation of the website. Turning off the style sheet will affect the visual presentation and may affect the functionality of the website for some users.

Changing Text Sizes

This site uses CSS relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified text size option in visual browsers. Changing the size of the text refers to making the text to appear smaller or bigger from its standard size. There are three options provided to you to set the size of the text that affect readability. These are:

• Largest: Displays information in the largest font size.
• Larger: Displays information in a font size larger than the standard font size.
• Medium: Displays information in a standard font size, which is the default size.

The website allows you to change the text size in three different ways, by clicking on the text size icons present at the top of each page and through Accessibility Options page.

Text size Icons

Following different options are provided in the form of icons which are available on the top of each page:

• Decrease text size: Allows to decrease the text size up to two levels
• Normal text size: Allows to set default text size
• Increase text size: Allows to increase the text size up to two levels

Links and Images

Necessary links were assigned TITLE attributes to describe the target in greater detail. Users of assistive technology may wish to set screen reader options to take full advantage of this feature.

Images used in this site include a descriptive ALT attribute. Those images which are purely decorative or used for layout include a null ALT attribute.

Tables

Screen reader table functions within screen readers may be used on this site. The tables are properly coded to take advantage these functions. Example: Using JAWS in Internet Explorer use Alt+Ctrl+Up or Down Arrow to properly read a table with table headers.

Changing the contrast Themes

Changing the contrast theme refers to applying a suitable background and text color that ensures clear readability. There are two options provided to change the contrast scheme. These are:

High contrast: Applies black color as the background and suitable colors to the foreground text on the screen to improve readability

Normal theme: applies white color as the background and black color to the foreground text to set the default contrast.

The website allows you to change the contrast themes in two different themes, by clicking on the icons present at the top of each page and through the Accessibility Options page.