AYJNIHH Receives National Award for Best Accessible Website

Dec. 5, 2010 - PRLog -- Press Release
AYJNIHH Receives National Award for Best Accessible Website
In the Cyber age Websites are the face of an organization. Organizations that work towards rehabilitation of persons with disabilities need to have accessible websites. For its efforts in ensuring the accessibility of its organizational website, (http://ayjnihh.nic.in) Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped, (AYJNIHH) Mumbai received National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, 2010. The National Award was given under the category of Public Sector/Autonomous/Local Govt. Bodies. The award was conferred by Her Excellency the President of India, Smt. Pratibha  Devisingh Patil, at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 3rd December, 2010.

Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped-Mumbai (left) & Screen Shot of the National Award winning Website (right)
The award was received by Prof. R.Rangasayee, Director, AYJNIHH at a function organized by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India. The website of the institute received over 46,600 hits since its makeover in the accessible format.  The design of the website is in the accessible format with features of screen reader, alternate text for the visuals for the Blind, skip to main content and navigation facility, customized text size, descriptive link text, key board support for browsing the portal, explicit form of label association and consistent navigation mechanism of content in English and Hindi etc.
This is the first time that National Institute under Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment receives such a unique award of appreciation for implementation of accessible website. The Director congratulates all the staff members of AYJNIHH and its regional centers for this unique achievement through their continuous efforts.
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(R.Rangasayee)
Director.

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Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped, Mumbai-50, an apex autonomous body under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India ( an ISO 9001:2000 organization)