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Dragon Dictation and Search now available in Apple's Australian iTunes store

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Mobile applications Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search are now available for free in Apple’s Australian iTunes store. These applications allow you to dictate to your iPhone or iPad, alleviating the need to use the onscreen keyboard.

The onscreen keyboard, particularly on the iPhone, can be cumbersome and time consuming for sighted and blind or vision impaired people alike. The Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search applications are built on Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Nuance’s highly sophisticated speech recognition software.

Dragon Dictation will convert your speech into text and Nuance claims that using Dragon Dictation is up to five times faster than typing on the keyboard.

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Mobile

A smartphone is a mobile phone with advanced computing power. In addition to making phone calls and sending text messages, smartphones can be connected to the internet. In essence, it is like carrying around a small computer that allows you to communicate with others, access the internet and install advanced applications just like you would on your desktop computer.

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Apple Mac

Apple OS X, also known as Mac OS X, is Apple’s operating system for Mac desktop and laptop computers produced by Apple. There are a number of built-in accessibility features that come standard with recent versions of OS X which improve access for people who are blind, vision impaired, Deaf or hearing impaired, or with physical or motor impairment.

The built-in accessibility features include:

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is currently the world’s most popular family of operating systems running on most of the world’s desktop and laptop computers. The most recent version of the OS includes Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

All recent versions of Windows contain many accessibility features, although there have been notable improvements to Windows accessibility with the introduction of touch-screen functionality in Windows 8.1 and further improvements to the user interface and digital assistant support in Windows 10.

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Online complaints about DVD accessibility

The Australian Home Entertainment Distributors Association (AHEDA) has released a DVD accessibility framework document, affirming its commitment to making available access features such as captioning and audio description.

AHEDA responds on behalf of members to complaints about accessibility of specific DVD titles where access features were available overseas and not in Australia.

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