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| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 02 June 2010 |
Jetstar to rent out iPads for inflight entertainment Jetstar has confirmed that it will be running a trial program that allows passengers to rent an iPad for $10. The iPad will contain movies, TV shows... |
| 01 June 2010 |
Emirates' inflight entertainment wins award Emirates has won the World’s Best Airline Inflight Entertainment award for the sixth year running at the 2010 Skytrax World Airline Awards. |
| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 28 May 2010 |
Apple's accessible iPad launched in Australia Crowds of people outside the Sydney Apple store brought the surrounding areas to a standstill this morning as the eagerly awaited and highly... |
| 27 May 2010 |
New research makes Rock Band accessible New research from the University of California Santa Cruz in the US allows people who are blind or vision impaired to join their friends in playing... |
| 25 May 2010 |
Game Accessibility Day 2010 Game accessibility enthusiasts will converge today in Boston, Massachusetts to attend the annual Game Accessibility Day, held as part of the Games... |
| 24 May 2010 |
London 2012 Olympics supports access for online video The story of Wenlock and Mandeville - the official London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics mascots respectively - can now be viewed online as an audio... |
| 21 May 2010 |
Office 2010 introduces inbuilt Accessibility Checker The new Microsoft Office 2010, due for release to the general public next month, includes an inbuilt Accessibility Checker that tests common... |
| 21 May 2010 |
Leading e-textbook provider increases accessibility features VitalSource Technologies Inc ., a company located in the US that specialises in physical and digital services in the book industry, has just... |
| 20 May 2010 |
Researcher receives award for using social media to support the education of people with disabilities Yesterday the Hon. Bill Shorten MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities, announced Dr Denise Wood as the inaugural winner of the Telstra-TJA... |
| 19 May 2010 |
Guidelines for describing images in the sciences and engineering The National Centre for Accessible Media (NCAM) in the US has published guidelines for describing images in Science, Technology, Engineering and... |
| 18 May 2010 |
Video shows state of online captioning in the US Spreety TV is an American website which provides a guide to all the TV shows which have been made available for viewing online by the networks there... |
| 12 May 2010 |
Google has an accessible new look and new features Google has considered access in the recent updates to the look and feel of its interface and the addition of left-hand navigation on the results... |
| 10 May 2010 |
Australasian firm ensures accessible accounting Accomplish Ltd has released version 15 of its CashManager accounting software, which is very accessible to blind people using assistive technology... |
| 06 May 2010 |
Free web accessibility evaluation tools move towards WCAG 2.0 Media Access Australia recently conducted an audit of free web accessibility evaluation tools and found that two tools support the Web Content... |
| 03 May 2010 |
Android product releases lead to greater access Google, the world’s largest search provider, looks set to achieve greater market share in the mobile market with its Android operating system being... |
| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 28 April 2010 |
Behind the News' has captions on the iView 'Behind the News' (BTN), the ABC’s current affairs program for children, now has captions available when watched on the iView media player. |
| 23 April 2010 |
Apple tutorials show you how to use accessibility features on the iPhone Apple is known for its inbuilt accessibility features, particularly the very powerful VoiceOver which functions as a gesture-based screen reader on... |
| 21 April 2010 |
Vlingo app for BlackBerry now reads out messages Vlingo has introduced a free feature to its Vlingo application for the BlackBerry called ScreenReader which reads aloud text messages and emails. |
| 20 April 2010 |
Netflix rolls out captions on streaming movies and TV shows Netflix Chief Product Officer, Neil Hunt announced on the Netflix blog that Netflix now supports closed captioning on its streaming movies and TV... |
| 19 April 2010 |
More free assistive technology software means more choice for users Two tools for people who are blind or vision impaired, a screen reader named Thunder and a screen magnifier named Lightning Express, offer people who... |