Central Drugs Standard Control Organization

Directorate General of Health Services
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Government of India

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Accessibility

Accessibility Know about the accessibility statement, accessibility features, and accessibility options.We are committed to ensure that, this website is accessible to all users irrespective of device in use, technology or ability. It has been built with an aim to provide maximum accessibility and usability to its visitors. As a result, this website can be viewed from a variety of devices, such as web-enabled mobile devices, wap phones, PDAs, and so on. We have put in our best efforts to ensure that all information on this website is accessible to people with disabilities. For example, a user with visual disability can access this website using assistive technologies, such as screen readers and magnifiers.

We also aim to be standards compliant and follow principles of usability and universal design, which should help all visitors of this website.

Viewing Information in Various File Formats

The information available as an attachment is in various file format, such as Portable Document Format (PDF), Word, Excel and Power Point. Though the website is tested in various environments and browsers but to view the information properly, the browser needs to have the required plug-ins or software. For example, the Adobe Acrobat Reader is required see all the pdfs. In case the system does not have requisite software, it may be downloaded from internet. The table given below depicts the required plug-ins needed to view the information in various file formats.

Screen Reader Access

Provides information regarding access to different Screen Readers.

The information of the Portal is accessible with different screen readers, such as JAWS, NVDA, SAFA, Supernova and Window-Eyes.

Following table lists the information about different screen readers:

Information related to the various screen readers

Screen Reader Website Free/Commercial
Screen Access For All (SAFA) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/safa-developer Free
Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) http://www.nvda-project.org Free
System Access To Go http://www.satogo.com Free
Thunder http://www.webbie.org.uk/thunder Free
WebAnywhere http://webinsight.cs.washington.edu/ Free