The Embassy of India, Helsinki is committed to making this website accessible to all users, irrespective of device in use, technology or ability. The website follows the Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW 3.0), the Digital Brand Identity Manual (DBIM 3.0) and level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Accessibility tools
Select the Accessibility options button (accessibility icon) in the top bar of every page, or press Ctrl + F2, to open the accessibility tools (UX4G accessibility widget of the Government of India). They let you change the text size and spacing, the contrast and colours, and other display settings, and reset them to the default.
The Skip to main content link at the top of every page takes keyboard and screen reader users straight to the content.
Keyboard use
- Tab and Shift + Tab move between links, buttons and form fields; the element in focus is shown with a visible outline.
- Enter or Space opens a menu; Esc closes it.
- Moving content, such as the image slider, can be paused with its pause button.
Browser settings
You can also change the text size with your browser: press Ctrl and + to enlarge and Ctrl and − to reduce (Cmd on a Mac); Ctrl and 0 resets it.
Known limitations
Some older documents in PDF format may not be fully accessible to screen readers. If you need any document in an accessible format, or face any problem in using this website, please contact us.
