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| 19 May 2016 |
5 ways to experience digital accessibility on Global Accessibility Awareness Day As today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), we thought that we would encourage some involvement amongst the community so that you can gain... |
| 17 May 2016 |
MAA launches the Cognitive Disability Digital Accessibility Guide Cognitive disability can be a difficult condition to understand. This is particularly the case for organisations wanting to be able to find out how... |
| 12 May 2016 |
Apple Store adds new access section in time for Global Accessibility Awareness Day Individuals with impairments can now find third party accessible accessories for Mac, iPad and iPhone devices to suit their specific needs under the... |
| 11 May 2016 |
Public Sector web and mobile app accessibility to become law in Europe Last week, three years since its proposal, it was agreed that public sector web accessibility will now become a legal requirement in Europe; an... |
| 04 May 2016 |
New updates by Twitter client app Twitterrific enhance accessibility for vision impaired users Twitterrific, a Mac OS X and iOS client for the social networking site Twitter, has launched a host of new and improved accessibility features for... |
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| 20 April 2016 |
Netflix improves accessibility for the blind In a court settlement with the American Council of the Blind (ACB), Netflix has agreed to include more audio description on its streamed content and... |
| 12 April 2016 |
Snapchat adds closed captioning support for Discover videos Social messaging app Snapchat has added closed captioning support for videos shared within its Discover section, allowing major publishers to share... |
| 11 April 2016 |
The force is even stronger with AD and CC The latest film in the Star Wars universe, The Force Awakens, is now available for sale in iTunes with audio description (AD) and closed captions, so... |
| 07 April 2016 |
Facebook introduces automatic alternative text feature to iOS app Facebook has launched a feature based on image recognition to provide Automatic Alternative Text (AAT) for photos uploaded to the social media... |
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| 31 March 2016 |
Twitter supports alternative text for images sent via app Twitter has announced that images tweeted from its iOS and Android apps can now include alternative text, ensuring that users of assistive... |
| 29 March 2016 |
Social media for those with a disability gets 2016 update The ground-breaking 2012 ‘SociAbility’ review into social media for those with a disability has had a much anticipated update. The Media Access... |
| 23 March 2016 |
Ten years of accessibility on Twitter Popular social media short-blogging site Twitter is 10 years old and over its life it has gone from being accessible to less accessible and back... |
| 15 March 2016 |
Accessible media preview from CSUN The annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (commonly known as CSUN) starts on 21 March in San Diego, California.... |
| 14 March 2016 |
Wikispeech project aims to make Wikipedia accessible for vision impaired people Swedish researchers are developing an open source speech synthesis platform to make Wikimedia-based websites more accessible to blind and vision... |
| 10 March 2016 |
Crossing the digital divide A recent discussion paper states that 1 million Australians with a disability don’t have internet access at home, because of cost, complexity and/or... |
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| 26 February 2016 |
More work needed for digital inclusion at home A newly-released report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) lists the number of households with access to the internet at home as 7.7... |
| 24 February 2016 |
First NVDA screen reader update for 2016 now available NV Access has launched the 2016.1 update of its NVDA screen reader for Microsoft Windows, adding a new option to lower the volume of external sounds... |
| 19 February 2016 |
Microsoft reveals accessibility goals for Windows 10 and Office 365 Tech giant Microsoft has revealed its roadmap of accessibility features to be introduced in Windows 10 and Office 365 over the course of 2016. The... |
| 15 February 2016 |
Video advertisements on Facebook to be auto-captioned Facebook will begin to roll out a new feature that will make auto-playing advertisements more accessible to people with a disability. |
| 10 February 2016 |
Service Providers Accessibility Guide now available via direct download Media Access Australia’s Service Providers Accessibility Guide, which received a significant update in October 2015, is now available to download... |