Accessibility Testing in India, Done by Hand
RPwD and GIGW 3.0 audits for government sites and the businesses that serve them.
What India actually requires
India's Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act creates a statutory duty, and government sites are held to GIGW 3.0, which references WCAG 2.1. Complaints run through the Chief Commissioner, with court orders behind them. Supply government and you inherit the standard through your contract, whether or not anybody spelled that out at signing.
We audit against the WCAG 2.1 rules GIGW points at, with an expert review of every rule and a professional blind screen-reader user working your journeys. Every finding lands with its evidence and its fix.
The rules in force in India
India: RPwD Act 2016 and GIGW
- Standard
- GIGW 3.0, which references WCAG 2.1
- Where it stands
- In force, government sites held to GIGW
- Who it binds
- Public and private sectors
- Reaches sellers based abroad
- Not by itself
- What non-compliance costs
- Statutory duty, Chief Commissioner complaints, court orders
- RPwD Act
- 2016
- Government guidelines
- GIGW 3.0
- WCAG version referenced
- 2.1
- Active enforcement route
- Courts
The India RPwD dates, 3 of them
- Apr 19, 2017RPwD Act 2016 comes into force
- 2019Accessibility standards notified for ICT
- 2023GIGW 3.0 published
What we test, and how, in India
Start with the honest part. The audit is the same in India as it is anywhere, because WCAG does not change at a border. What changes is which law is watching and what it costs to fail, and the section above settles that.
The work itself runs in three passes. A machine finds the failures a machine can prove. A human works every one of the 55 A and AA rules by hand. Then a professional blind screen-reader user opens your real journeys and tries to finish them, the way your customers would. Every finding arrives with its screenshot and the fix that closes it, drawn from our free library of 432 guides.
None of the reference sits behind a form, either. Every number below counts pages you can go and read right now, free, whether you ever buy an audit or not.
- A and AA rules we check
- 55
- Techniques and failures
- 432
- ACT test rules
- 90
- ARIA roles documented
- 94
- Terms in the glossary
- 131
- Checklists to work from
- 9
- A free 10-page scan that finds what a machine can prove, before you spend anything
- Paid audits at fixed prices on the pricing page, $499 for 10 pages in 5 business days, $1,499 for 25 in 10
- The exact deliverable, free to read, as the sample report
The honest limit
And an audit is evidence, not a legal opinion. We tell you what fails, who it stops, and what closes it. Whether that satisfies a regulator or a court in India is a question for your lawyer, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
What owners in India want to know first
Is accessibility testing in India different from anywhere else?
No. WCAG is the same standard everywhere, so the testing is identical wherever you are. What changes is which law is watching and what failing it costs, and that is what the law section on this page settles.
Who sets the rules for a website in India?
India RPwD is the one that reach India first, and each has its own page here covering what it asks for, who it lands on, and how it gets enforced. Sell into more than one market and more than one of them can reach you at the same time.
Does India expect a published accessibility statement?
No law that reaches India names one in our library, so nothing forces you to publish a statement. You can still publish one anyway, and our free generator will write it from what the audit found.
How much is an audit, and when does the report land?
A Rapid Audit is $499 for 10 pages, with the report in 5 business days. A Standard Audit is $1,499 for 25 pages in 10 business days. Once your team has fixed things, the re-audit is half price within 3 months.
Is a real screen-reader user involved, or just software?
Yes, on every audit. A professional blind screen-reader user opens your real journeys and tries to finish them, and we write down where they stop. That is the pass no scanner can run.
Related on this site
The reading behind the law that reaches you in India, and the guides that turn it into work your team can do.
States and union territories and cities we test in India
- Agra, India
- Ahmedabad, India
- Ajmer, India
- Aligarh, India
- Ambattur, India
- Amravati, India
- Amritsar, India
- Asansol, India
- Aurangabad, India
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- Bareilly, India
- Belagavi, India
- Bengaluru, India
- Bhavnagar, India
- Bhilai, India
- Bhiwandi, India
- Bhopal, India
- Bhubaneswar, India
- Bikaner, India
- Chennai, India
- Coimbatore, India
- Cuttack, India
- Dehradun, India
- Dhanbad, India
- Durgapur, India
- Faridabad, India
- Firozabad, India
- Gaya, India
- Ghaziabad, India
- Gorakhpur, India
- Guntur, India
- Gurugram, India
- Guwahati, India
- Gwalior, India
- Howrah, India
- Hubli-Dharwad, India
- Hyderabad, India
- Indore, India
- Jabalpur, India
- Jaipur, India
- Jalandhar, India
- Jalgaon, India
- Jammu, India
- Jamnagar, India
- Jamshedpur, India
- Jhansi, India
- Jodhpur, India
- Kalaburagi, India
- Kalyan-Dombivli, India
- Kanpur, India
- Kochi, India
- Kolhapur, India
- Kolkata, India
- Kota, India
- Loni, India
- Lucknow, India
- Ludhiana, India
- Madurai, India
- Maheshtala, India
- Malegaon, India
- Mangaluru, India
- Meerut, India
- Mira-Bhayandar, India
- Moradabad, India
- Mumbai, India
- Mysuru, India
- Nagpur, India
- Nanded, India
- Nashik, India
- Navi Mumbai, India
- Nellore, India
- Noida, India
- Patna, India
- Pimpri-Chinchwad, India
- Prayagraj, India
- Pune, India
- Raipur, India
- Rajkot, India
- Ranchi, India
- Saharanpur, India
- Salem, India
- Sangli-Miraj-Kupwad, India
- Siliguri, India
- Solapur, India
- Srinagar, India
- Surat, India
- Thane, India
- Thiruvananthapuram, India
- Tiruchirappalli, India
- Tirunelveli, India
- Udaipur, India
- Ujjain, India
- Ulhasnagar, India
- Vadodara, India
- Varanasi, India
- Vasai-Virar, India
- Vijayawada, India
- Visakhapatnam, India
- Warangal, India
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
- Andhra Pradesh, India
- Arunachal Pradesh, India
- Assam, India
- Bihar, India
- Chandigarh, India
- Chhattisgarh, India
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, India
- Delhi, India
- Goa, India
- Gujarat, India
- Haryana, India
- Himachal Pradesh, India
- Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Jharkhand, India
- Karnataka, India
- Kerala, India
- Ladakh, India
- Lakshadweep, India
- Madhya Pradesh, India
- Maharashtra, India
- Manipur, India
- Meghalaya, India
- Mizoram, India
- Nagaland, India
- Odisha, India
- Puducherry, India
- Punjab, India
- Rajasthan, India
- Sikkim, India
- Tamil Nadu, India
- Telangana, India
- Tripura, India
- Uttar Pradesh, India
- Uttarakhand, India
- West Bengal, India
Accessibility testing in other countries
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- Denmark
- Norway
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Canada
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Estonia
- Finland
- Greece
- Hungary
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Sweden
- Argentina
- Colombia
- China
- Hong Kong
- Taiwan
- Saudi Arabia
- Qatar
- United Arab Emirates
- Iceland
- Liechtenstein
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Japan
- South Korea
- Israel
- Brazil
Find out where your site stands in India
Run the free scan. Read the sample report. Order the audit when you want the humans on it, and what lands is a report your developers, your lawyer or a regulator in India can act on.