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Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
Government of India
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Revamping of State Govt. websites to make them barrier free to all specially to Persons with Disabilities (PwD).

Revamping of State Govt. websites to make them barrier free to all specially to Persons with Disabilities (PwD).

Under Accessibility India Campaign, one of the target is to make Government websites and Digital contents accessible to all specially to Persons with Disabilities (PwD). This is also mandated by RPwD Act 2016.

Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) has funded ERNET India to make State Govt. websites accessible in compliance with Guidelines for Indian Govt. Website (GIGW) and International Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-2.1).

Under the project Hundreds of websites belonging to departments of state Govt. and UTs across the country are being made accessible.

A state of the art testing facility for the accessibility of these websites has also been created inhouse.