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ABS announces updated processes for same-sex marriage postal vote
Same-sex marriage postal vote could be inaccessible for 275,000 people
Five Guys burger chain in a pickle over website inaccessibility
Push for mandatory captioning in New Zealand
Airbnb launches inclusive design toolkit
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Balance your bias. Consider the opposite. Embrace a growth mindset.
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Commonwealth Bank disrupting EFTPOS usage for the blind and vision-impaired
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Woman tries to use touchscreen on Albert tablet
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Uber sued for only having 0.3% accessible cars
Technology is key to creating ‘most accessible neighbourhood’
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CNIB Beacon - photo by Chris Young of the Canadian Press
The CNIB institute is preparing to roll out 200 small (7x7cm) 'Beacons' into stores and restaurants (at no charge to each business) in the neighbourhood, which will provide vision-impaired customers with practical information on the premises they enter.
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Microsoft releases new app – a talking camera for the blind
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Seeing AI logo
In March 2016, Microsoft showed off a prototype of its Seeing AI app, which looked very promising at the time but required further development. In mid July 2017 the company released an enhanced and updated version, as a free app on iOS.
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