Accessibility

This page explains what the KSVT website does today so that as many people as possible can use it, and where it still falls short. It is written plainly, so you can check it against your own experience of using the site.

WHAT IS CHECKED ON EVERY PAGE

Every page is tested automatically at a screen width of 320 pixels. That is the width named by the Reflow rule in WCAG 2.2, section 1.4.10. It is what a small phone gives you, and it is also what a larger phone gives you once the text is enlarged to twice its normal size. At that width, no page on this site scrolls sideways. Text stays inside the screen, and buttons stay where a thumb can reach them.

Buttons, links and other controls you tap are checked to be at least 24 pixels across. That is the minimum target size named in WCAG 2.2, section 2.5.5. Anything smaller and a one-handed tap lands on the wrong control.

These checks run in both English and Kannada. A page that fits in English can still break in Kannada, because the same sentence needs a different amount of room. So both are tested, not one.

TWO LANGUAGES, THROUGHOUT

The interface is fully available in English and in Kannada. This is not a translated front page with English underneath: the forms, the buttons, the error messages and the notices are all written in both.

The language control sits in the top-right of every screen and reads "English | ಕನ್ನಡ". It is built as a proper radio group, so a screen reader announces which language is currently selected before you change anything, and the arrow keys move between the two.

MOVING AROUND WITHOUT A MOUSE

Every page carries a skip-to-content link. It is the first thing you reach when you start moving through a page with a keyboard, and it takes you past the menus straight to the main text.

Pages are also built with landmark regions. The header, the navigation and the main content are each marked as what they are, so a screen reader can announce them and let you jump between them instead of reading everything from the top.

WHAT WE ARE NOT CLAIMING

We are not claiming a WCAG conformance level. No independent accessibility audit of this site has been carried out. Claiming a level we have not been assessed against would be a false statement, and this platform exists to reduce false statements, not to add to them.

So please read the sections above as a description of what is actually checked — not as a promise that every part of the site works for every person. There will be places we have missed. Automatic checks find pages that overflow and controls that are too small; they cannot tell us whether a page makes sense to you.

TELL US WHERE IT BREAKS

If a page does not work for you, tell us. That report is worth more to us than any checklist, because you are using the site on the phone you actually own and the connection you actually have.

Use the Contact page. If you are a member and signed in, go to Member, then Support. It helps if you say which page it was, what phone or browser you were using, whether you were reading in English or Kannada, and what happened — for example, that text ran off the edge, that a button could not be tapped, or that a screen reader read nothing at all.

KSVT is an independent, citizen-led organisation. It is not a government department, and this page carries no official standing; it is a description of a website written by the people who build it.

This page describes current practice. It is pending review by a qualified adviser before launch, and it will be updated as the site changes.