Supreme Court E-committee conducted a two-day Digital Accessibility Training for visually challenged court staff from District and Taluk courts from across the Court on 15^th and 16^th May, at IIPA, New Delhi.

Making the digital infrastructure of the Indian judicial system more accessible to persons with disabilities is one of the core components of the e-Committee of the Supreme Court of India, executed under the guidance of the Chief Justice of India, Dr Justice D.Y. Chandrachud.

Each participant for this training was given Laptop loaded with accessibility software. The special educators from NIVH & NAB took the handholding training in using various assistive technologies, including the accessible reading of court documents, accessible documentation & note-making in a digital work environment; creating Digital Accessible format; using Internet and judgement searching through the eSCR portal, judgement search portal using the screenreaders; smartphone-based assistive technologies, and input in regional languages.

The court staff of various districts of India were trained in the 3rd batch of the digital accessibility training programme.

The Director General of IIPA Mr SN Tripathi distributed the certificates to the participants for completing the participants on the completion of the training programme.