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All high court websites now have captchas accessible to people with disabilities, the Justice Department said on Sunday.
The task of making the digital infrastructure of the Indian justice system more accessible to people with disabilities has been at the heart of the work of the Supreme Court’s electronic committee in recent months, he said in a statement.
“An important step that the e-Committee’s efforts towards this goal have resulted in has been to ensure that all High Court websites now have captchas that are accessible to people with disabilities (PwD),” he said. he declares.
Captcha is a program that protects websites from bots by generating and rating tests that humans can pass, but current computer programs cannot.
These captchas serve as entry points to access several essential facets of a court website, such as judgments and orders, case lists and status checks, the statement said.
Many high court websites exclusively used visual captchas that were inaccessible to visually impaired people, preventing them from accessing this content independently.
In coordination with all the highest courts, the e-Committee has now ensured that visual captchas are accompanied by textual or audio captchas making the content of the site accessible to visually impaired people, the statement said.
The Supreme Court e-Committee is chaired by Justice DY Chandrachud.
Another important initiative undertaken by the e-Committee in collaboration with the NIC is the creation of a judgment search portal (https://judgments.ecourts.gov.in) accessible to people with disabilities.
The portal contains final judgments and orders issued by all high courts and uses a free text search engine.
In addition, it offers the possibility of using an audio captcha, as well as a text captcha. It also uses accessible combo boxes, which makes it easier for visually impaired people to navigate the website.
There are 25 high courts in the country.
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