The ‘talking guide’, which features a female voice, reads out program titles and other information, network names, time slots and settings. It will be made available to all Comcast customers in the next few weeks.
According to Varley, the opportunities are waiting to be tapped in servicing the almost 20% of the population with a disability who have mainstream needs. He outlined five key issues to consider:
Media Access Australia’s Accessible Document Service is a simple, convenient service helping organisations to make their documents accessible for web and digital environments.
Depending on complexity, almost any type of document can be made accessible according to applicable standards like WCAG 2.0 and PDF/UA.
Most common source software formats that can be made accessible and converted into accessible PDFs are:
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