Accessibility on LegalFirms.in
Legal information should be usable by everyone, including people who use a screen reader, need larger text, find some colours hard to read, or would rather listen than read. This page says what you can change, what we have checked, and what is not yet right.
What you can change on every page
Two round buttons sit at the bottom left of every page: Listen (the speaker) and Accessibility (the figure). The Accessibility button opens these settings:
- Text size: 100, 112 or 125 per cent.
- More contrast: darker text and stronger colours.
- Readable font: a plain, wide typeface in place of the site's fonts.
- More spacing: wider gaps between lines, letters and words.
- Underline links: every link underlined, and a strong outline around whatever has keyboard focus.
- Stop motion: no animations or sliding effects.
Your choices are kept in this browser and apply on every page of LegalFirms.in, the directory and the magazine. "Reset all" puts everything back. Nothing is sent to us.
Listen to a page
- Press Listen and the page is read aloud by your phone's or computer's own voice. The part being read is highlighted and kept in view.
- Select some text first to hear only that part.
- While it reads, a small bar lets you pause, change the speed (1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 0.85x) or stop. Esc also stops it.
- Menus, forms and the footer are skipped, so you hear the page's own text.
- Hindi pages are read with a Hindi voice when your device has one. If it has none, the bar says so; Android and Windows let you add a Hindi voice in their speech settings.
The reading happens on your device. No text or audio is sent to LegalFirms.in or anyone else, and it costs nothing.
Keyboard and screen readers
- The Listen, Accessibility and Back to top buttons, the settings panel and the reading bar can be reached with Tab and used with Enter or Space; Esc closes the panel and stops reading.
- Buttons that show only an icon carry a spoken name, and settings say whether they are on or off.
- "Back to top" (bottom right) returns you to the top and moves keyboard focus to the start of the page.
- Guides and pages use real headings, so screen readers can list them and jump between them.
What we have checked
- We work towards the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA. LegalFirms.in has not had an independent audit, so we do not claim that every page meets it.
- Our home page scored 100 in the automated accessibility check of Google Lighthouse on 9 November 2026. Automated checks find only some problems, so we also look at pages in a browser at phone and computer sizes before they go live.
- When we redesign a page we check its text colours against the WCAG contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for normal text.
What is not yet right
- Advocate and law firm profiles show text and photos added by their owners. Some photos have no description beyond the person's or firm's name.
- Translations of Supreme Court judgments open as the Court's own PDF files. Many are scanned pages, which screen readers cannot read.
- Some older magazine articles use images that contain text.
- Pages we have not redesigned yet may still have small or light grey text, and parts of the keyboard path through older pages have not been checked.
Tell us about a problem
If something on LegalFirms.in is hard to use or read, write to info@legalfirms.in with the address of the page and what went wrong. If you need information from a page in another form, ask in the same email.
Last reviewed 13 November 2026.