Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India website complies with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 level AA. This will enable people with visual impairments access the website using assistive technologies, such as screen readers. The information of the website is accessible with different screen readers.

Various Screen Readers to choose from:-

S.No.	Screen Reader	Website	Free / Commercial
1.	Screen Access For All (SAFA)	http://safa-reader.software.informer.com/download/	Free
2.	Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA)	http://www.nvda-project.org/	Free
3.	System Access To Go	http://www.satogo.com/	Free
4.	Thunder	http://www.screenreader.net/index.php?pageid=11	Free
5.	WebAnywhere	http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/wa.php	Free
6.	Hal	http://www.yourdolphin.co.uk/productdetail.asp?id=5	Commercial
7.	JAWS	http://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/Blindness/JAWS	Commercial
8.	Supernova	http://www.yourdolphin.co.uk/productdetail.asp?id=1	Commercial
9.	Window-Eyes	http://www.gwmicro.com/Window-Eyes/	Commercial