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05/04/22 13:13 PM IST

DIKSHA Website

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  • DIKSHA is the platform for providing quality e-content for school education in States/UTs and QR coded Energized Textbooks for all grades (one nation, one digital platform).

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  • DIKSHA complies with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 level AA.
  • This enables people with visual impairments to access the website using assistive technologies, such as screen readers.
  • Special e-content for visually and hearing impaired developed on Digitally Accessible Information System (DAISY) and in sign language on NIOS website/ YouTube.
  • A 10,000 word ISL dictionary has been uploaded on DIKSHA. 3,345 audio books chapters are also uploaded on DIKSHA.
About DAISY 
  • DAISY is the emerging world standard for digital talking books for people who are visually impaired or have a print disability.
  • DAISY books have “embedded navigation” that enables readers to instantly jump to any part of a work- the same way a sighted person can turn to any page.
  • With DAISY, the text is delineated with tags, such as part, chapter, page, paragraph, etc., and synced with the audio files.
  • Readers can navigate through this hierarchy using the tab key or other player control.

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