Statement

Accessibility

This site targets WCAG 2.2 Level AA. As a centrally funded institution, the institute is subject to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act and the Guidelines for Indian Government Websites — so this is a legal obligation, not a preference.

Conformance

What has been done

Target size: Every interactive control meets the WCAG 2.2 AA minimum of 24 CSS pixels. Buttons, form controls and primary navigation are 44 pixels or larger, which additionally satisfies the AAA criterion.
Contrast: Every text colour in the palette was measured against every background it can appear on, in both light and dark themes. All clear 4.5:1; large text clears 3:1.
Headings: One h1 per page, and heading levels descend without skipping, so the document outline is navigable.
Images: Every image carries alt text, or an explicitly empty alt where it is decorative.
Keyboard: All navigation, filters and menus are operable by keyboard. Focus is always visible, and Escape closes menus.
Landmarks: Header, main, navigation and footer are marked up as landmarks, with a skip link to main content.
Motion: prefers-reduced-motion is honoured. Nothing auto-plays, scrolls or animates without being asked to.
Language: The page declares its language, and Devanagari passages are marked lang="hi" so screen readers pronounce them correctly.
No-JavaScript: All content, including institute statistics, is server-rendered and readable without JavaScript.

Known gaps

What is outstanding

Stated plainly, because an accessibility statement that claims no problems is not a useful document.

Institute emblem: The only emblem published by the institute is an 80×79 pixel raster. A vector original is needed for it to render sharply at any size.
Legacy documents: 6,721 PDF, spreadsheet and Word documents are indexed and titled here, but their internal accessibility is not something this site can fix. Remediating them is a separate, substantial piece of work.
Hindi parity: The institute publishes 534 Hindi pages against 1,044 English. Sections created here have no Hindi text yet, and none has been machine-translated to disguise the gap.
Third-party portals: ERP, intranet, library and booking systems are separate applications with their own accessibility characteristics, outside the scope of this site.

Reporting a problem

If any part of this site prevents you from doing something, that is a defect and we want to know. Write to help.website@iitbhu.ac.in, describing the page and what happened.

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