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Accessibility expert’s ideas to make JetBlue website more accessible

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Derek Featherstone, accessibility expert and founder of Further Ahead, has posted an article outlining some of the technical changes that the USA’s JetBlue Airways could implement to make its website more accessible.

The article was inspired by the lawsuit filed in 2010 against JetBlue for the inaccessibility of its website. The outcome of the case against JetBlue Airways last week effectively left the complainants with no recourse in US state or federal courts.


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Update: goMoney even more accessible says ANZ

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ANZ contacted Media Access Australia this week to let us know that the accessibility issue that prevented users from reviewing payment input details has been solved in the latest update to its goMoney iPhone app. 

This issue, which we reported on in our article about ANZ goMoney supporting blind and vision impaired customers, was actually fixed in the last update but this was not reflected in ANZ’s Frequently Asked Questions web page.

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Gmail for Android is now more accessible

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Google has released an update to Gmail on Android that improves its accessibility for people who are blind or vision impaired using Android smartphones and tablets.

According to Google Mobile, accessibility in Gmail for Android now includes the following features:

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Voice-to-text feature very likely in iOS 5

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New information has lent credence to the rumours that Apple and software developers Nuance are partnering to provide voice-to-text in the upcoming release of iOS 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Apple user blog 9to5mac received screenshots of IOS 5 beta from a reliable source that show a microphone icon situated to the right of the space key on the onscreen keyboard. Once the microphone key is pressed, the onscreen keyboard will be replaced with a large microphone icon. When you finish talking, the text will appear in the text field.

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